I think you&#x27;re just describing how our economy works.<p>People love cheap clothing stores, cheap items off Amazon, quick delivery, etc. That&#x27;s the impact on them.<p>How it happens is immaterial. You can do it via magic 3d-printing device, 8-year old slaves, minimum wage workers, hamsters running on a wheel with a dog as foreman, none of that matters to the customer.<p>What matters is firstly the actual experience, and secondly your presentation - because most customers won&#x27;t research it, and if you get to Uber size, whether you&#x27;re lying is immaterial unless the authorities become interested in you.<p>I don&#x27;t think this is limited to capitalism. It&#x27;s just realpolitik. Consider that many of my comments on Hacker News have some up votes. That can be considered rewarding my comments. The utility to others has been in reading them. Funny, informative, whatever.<p>Maybe I&#x27;ve employed an army of unpaid interns to produce my comments whilst whipping them twice weekly. It doesn&#x27;t matter (to my up vote count), because no-one cared enough to research it, and even if they did, most people viewing the comments wouldn&#x27;t know, and even if they did, of that group even fewer would care enough to prioritise an alternative.<p>The ultimate hope here is that the benefit to the customers outweighs the negative to the workers. Which in the case of Uber, is probably true, at least in the short term.<p>Whether it&#x27;s beneficial longer term for larger portions of the economy to tend towards lower incomes for more work remains to be seen. But can we even do anything about it anyway? Not sure. such world.