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This excuse for worker exploitation has always baffled me. 1. The contract was signed under duress: "Take this shitty job or continue to be unemployed." Consent made under duress is not consent. 2. It was agreed to under an extreme power asymmetry: If you refuse the job, your family will have to go hungry, but the company will easily find some other desperate soul to fill the position. 3. I haven't even begun to touch on all the class, racial, ethnic, and gender discrimination that workers face.

There's nothing even close to meaningful or fair negotiation under such conditions.

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Charity is only necessary because corporations like McDonald's exploit the working class. They pay us wages that are barely (or not) sufficient to keep us alive, then pocket the rest. All the billions the corporation makes is billions created by and stolen from the working class. Under a more equitable system based on mutual aid and in which the workers control the means of production, and own the fruits of their labor, charity as we know it would become unnecessary.