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for a post back on topic, i just thought of a great analogy. My grandparents and great grandparents lived through the great depression (as i'm sure many people's ancestors did). They were in the group of many who had to travel around looking for work for farmers and got paid like a nickel an hour or something (I'm too lazy to look it up but it was an incredibly small amount). Every cent they made went towards food (I know this because I've heard it from my grandparents mouths). They also had nothing because they came over to america just before the great depression (they left germany because of WW1). The farmers that paid these low wages profited from my ancestors work.
Wait a minute....now there is this thing called minimum wage. Should I go look for every farmer my grandparents and great grandparents worked for and demand them to give ME the extra $5.10 for every hour they worked? That seems pretty absurd to me even though the extra cash would be nice.
Wether it was right or wrong, it was legal to pay ungodly low wages back then, just like how it was legal to not pay slaves at all when slavery was legal.
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