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Re:Poultry Workers in Diapers as Bathroom Breaks Denied, Oxf... by brianwawok on Wednesday May 11, 2016 @04:25PM (#11678918)
So you make a Chicken processing company. Pay your workers $20 an hour and plenty of breaks. You sell Chickens for $4.

Another company pays workers $4 an hour and makes them wear diapers. Sells Chickens for $3.75.

Barring an outside force (regulation, feel good marketing campaign, ethics badge), which one gets 100% of the market, and which one gets 0%?

Sometimes, free market sucks.

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Re:Poultry Workers in Diapers as Bathroom Breaks Denied, Oxf... by antisthenes on Wednesday May 11, 2016 @07:42PM (#11680300)
It's the winner-take-all paradox, which was mentioned in an article here on HN earlier today.

Given only a small incremental competitive advantage, a company is able to capture the overwhelming majority of the market, essentially becoming a monopoly.

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Re:Poultry Workers in Diapers as Bathroom Breaks Denied, Oxf... by brianwawok on Wednesday May 11, 2016 @08:42PM (#11680531)
Hence the sad world we live in with ever decreasing wages ;(
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