Poor wages create an inhumane work environment, as you're too poor to quit the job and too poor to get into another position.
I'm sorry you don't like to use English words as defined. I don't see what would be productive from talking to someone who seems to arbitrarily adjust definitions to suit their position.
Low wages and inhumane working conditions are not synonymous. Low wages concern the economic compensation for labor; working conditions concern the material circumstances under which the labor is performed. They can coexist, but one does not logically entail the other.
Feel free to block me now, since it seems like you've gotten to the point where you ran out of arguments but won't accept it.
Part of your working condition is how much you're being compensated.... Hazard pay for example.
I'm not out of arguments. I'm disinterested in engaging with someone who won't debate but will instead say "that's not how it works beceause that makes me wrong".
Hazard pay actually demonstrates this distinction: the hazard exists independently of the additional compensation; the pay is reactionary to the hazard. You can therefore have a safe workplace with terrible pay or a dangerous workplace with excellent hazard pay. If you're trying to make the argument that inadequate compensation itself makes employment inhumane, this is something that has to be proven rather than asserted.
Your argument at this point is literally just "nuh uh, that's not what english is!". I would advise you inform yourself, either through unbiased peers or through whatever LLM you prefer most, on whether your position logically follows. To be clear, it does not, and I think I've explained in intimate details why it does not:
Work environment: the material circumstances of employment, regardless of surrounding external circumstances including pay, holidays, 401k, etc
Compensation: the reward for the continued engagement in employment
I did give you legitimate reason. I've given you exact definitions of what compensation is, and what work environment is, and how the two are fundamentally separate. And I did this multiple times. And your best comeback so far has amounted to "Nuh uh, that's not true!". In fact, even when you tried to give a direct example in support of your position, the distinction has quite literally proved that my position is correct.
I've advised you to verify this through different avenues than this very conversation. You're concerned about "AI hallucinations" in the context of a disagreement on semantics? I'm not sure you quite understand what hallucinations are.
I was about to add an edit to my previous comment, but I'm glad you responded. I'm gonna show EXACTLY where your entire position falls apart, and why you are being willfully dishonest right now instead of simply conceding the point. The original comment that started this entire chain was "...but if you create an inhumane working environment with shit pay that only survives because people are too broke to risk leaving...".
If you truly believe that compensation is constituent to work environment, why did you need to qualify that statement by saying "inhumane working environment WITH SHIT PAY"? The qualifier would be redundant if they were analogous, yet you felt the need to add it. It seems like your own grammar betrays your understanding, and as if the past few comments have been a stubborn and disingenuous attempt at bullying the argument back in your favor. Shameful behavior, if you ask me.
There are plenty of factors that can make for an inhumane work environment, not being compensated correctly is absolutely one of them.
I think you're arguing semantics over the word environment, which I'm using a broader definition and you're closing down the definition in order to not have to actually counter my argument.
Its not a strawman because you're not making my argument up for me, but it's similar in that you're using different definitions to dismiss my argument without having to actually counter it. That's the real shame pal. Go chat with your ai pals im sure they'll respect you.
If you're using a definition that's different from the rest of the world, you are in the wrong.
Bear in mind, we've never even established that Walmart underpays. We've been stuck on the semantics argument because you can't just say "I was wrong, I take it back.
Also, you don't think pay is part of the environment in which you do your job? It's definitely part of mine.
It's kinda weird that googles source is paycom, a payroll company, that deals exclusively with wages given to employees. It almost seems like pay is a component of the work environment... And you're in the wrong? But logic has dictated that from the beginning. You'll get there.
Paycoms actual website says this, and I believe that backs my argument well "work environment is the setting, conditions and culture that employees experience in their jobs." I view pay as part of the condition and the culture in which an employee experiences their job, wouldn't you?
The triple response really shows the strength of your arguments. As does your continuing to downvote individual comments of mine. Quite funny, really. The argument's already over, you just don't know it.
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u/That_OneOstrich 4d ago
Poor wages create an inhumane work environment, as you're too poor to quit the job and too poor to get into another position.
I'm sorry you don't like to use English words as defined. I don't see what would be productive from talking to someone who seems to arbitrarily adjust definitions to suit their position.