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		pydry on April 30, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Labor shortage or terrible jobs? Almost as if the trope were a pretext for why it's ok to pay shit wages.

minimuffins on April 30, 2021 [–]

When an objectively flimsy discourse like that circulates widely you have to ask yourself what its actual function is. Its apparent function of describing the world accurately is not being fulfilled, but the discourse persists, so what is its less apparent function (and you got it: it's to naturalize exploitation)?

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