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Re:Extreme Minimalism: this guy owns just 15 things by j4kzejfd on Monday January 16, 2012 @02:02PM (#3471933)
To be fair, the parent commenter is the one who introduced the "[reliance] on an army of [poor, brown] immigrant workers" straw-man argument.
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Re:Extreme Minimalism: this guy owns just 15 things by jessedhillon on Monday January 16, 2012 @02:12PM (#3471986)
No. The straw man is not the claim that OP is reliant on such people. The straw man is the response, which distorts the argument from one of

There are certain people upon whom you rely and are not acknowledging

to

You must have an army of personal slaves

so that he can conveniently dismiss it with a laugh.

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