The thing is that I don&#x27;t have much choice when it comes to, say, electronics or the clothes I wear and so on, but I&#x27;m not the person who employs the people who make those things directly and I don&#x27;t profit from their work. In fact, if you think of it this way, if I pay £15 for a cardigan made in Bangladesh by a woman who gets paid £5 a week for her work, I&#x27;m getting ripped off also. Why am I not paying pennies for it, if that&#x27;s what her work is worth to whomever is selling it to me?<p>Your position, however is different than mine. In your case there&#x27;s noone forcing you to not share a bigger part of your profits with the people you employ. The choice is all yours.<p>You maximise your profit. Fair enough. But that brings us back to my original comment. In a free market economy, everybody is maximising their profits. For low-wage workers that means minimising the quality of their work, and I don&#x27;t see any way out of it, if you agree that everyone is a rational player.<p>The alternative is that you&#x27;re hiring complete idiots, which also works to your detriment, considering they&#x27;re expected to work with their brains.