Those poor master's degree havers!

an american having a master's degree and getting low wages could mean they're indeed poor. a near-lifetime of non-dischargeable debt repayment.

They're clearly people who had choices in life.

That categorization encompasses what.. 98% of everyone?

Your bar for sympathy may be a bit high.

Well it's certainly not going to include people that have $13/hr jobs in America.

well, they presumably weren't born into slavery only to be worked brutally hard then tortured and murdered by a slave owner, so i guess they're worthy of a sneer or two.

I'm not sneering at them. I'm objecting to the categorization of them as a victim being exploited. They're doing useful work and getting paid for it.

you haven't established how that is necessarily not-exploitation.

Oh it is exploitation. It's not like there's a victim, though. The drivers likewise exploit Google's insufferable desire for street photography in exchange for cash.

is this purposeful equivocation?

> you're benefiting from this exploitation.

So what? I'm sure there's things you benefit from thanks to the Nazis.

Personally I prefer to not encourage bad behaviour and change the world in a positive way than worry about philosophical arguments.