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Shared Responsibility for Exploitation
The working poor, like Julio, have to endure multiple jobs to afford basic living costs, benefiting corporations and consumers. While corporations profit from cheap goods and services produced by the working poor, consumers also benefit when their savings and retirement accounts grow due to these profit-driven mechanisms, even at the expense of individuals like Julio. The narrative of exploitation involves not just the super-rich or political structures, but also regular individuals who indirectly contribute to systems that exploit the working poor.