| What argument am I making exactly? Your statement seems to be one of 'should' due to social factors largely outside of the various actors control and/or self-interest. Which in my experience tends to mean 'I wish was', not 'will be', let alone 'is'. Unfortunately. But pressure applied to various regulators, PR campaigns, etc. could change that! I wish whoever wants to spend the time and effort doing so the best of luck. When that happens, the factors will change. In the end, labor markets only care about the wellbeing of participants as much as they have to - because labor will either actually not participate, or regulators will actually intervene, etc. If someone is willing (and able) to commute 12 hrs a day to fill a job, and an employer is willing to employ that person at the rate they want, that will often happen barring better deals. Stochastically of course. One can think of it in relation to energy states (when markets get above a certain size) if one was in the mood. As always though, just as in said physics or chemistry problems, individual 'atoms' can and will end up in wildly different states from the median. But that a single atom may be a movement/vibration rate equivalent to 100C doesn't mean the temperature of the solution isn't 25C (for example). Or that it won't average out over time for that atom as it collides/interacts with others. |