There&#x27;s no inherent morality to the corporate bottom line (one of the biggest flaws in &quot;free market&quot; thinking is that if a theory is beautiful, it must also be moral). If corporations can get the government to help subsidize employment, they&#x27;ll do so.<p>The only solution to exploitation is to make &quot;do nothing&quot; a viable alternative. Right now, in America at least, welfare is a difficult and humiliating process. Employment is the only way to have any dignity at all, and employers exploit that - they underpay for awful jobs, and force employees to rely on welfare anyway. And this isn&#x27;t even considering all those whom, for whatever reason, aren&#x27;t really able to work. Physical or mental health, family needs, and more can all impair the ability to do a job even if one is available, and the government supported alternatives are, again, difficult and humiliating.<p>If employers were forced to compete not against humiliation, but rather against choice, they&#x27;d have to make the jobs suck less and pay more. Even burger-flipping would need to start getting decent treatment, the kind those of us in high demand jobs have come to expect.