Profiting from poverty |
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| Authors: | Ole Koksvik Gerhard Øverland |
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| Affiliation: | 1. University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway;2. Monash University, Melbourne, Australia;3. University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway |
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| Abstract: | We consider whether and under what conditions it is morally illicit to profit from poverty. We argue that when profit counterfactually depends on poverty, the agent making the profit is morally obliged to relinquish it. Finally, we argue that the people to whom the profit should be redirected are those on whom it counterfactually depends. |
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| Keywords: | Poverty poverty-profit principle sweatshops profiting from poverty benefiting from injustice exploitation |
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