write replies to two posts separately. Do you agree with what they wrote (about

write replies to two posts separately. Do you agree with what they wrote (about whether the case they describe is one of exploitation) Explain why. You will get 2 points for each reply.
POST!# 1
I.) It is no secret that the South Korean workforce (where I currently am employed) is highly toxic and exploitative of both domestic and expat workers. Due to cultural standards based in Confucianism, it is expected that strict age and position hierarchies be placed above all else, leading to workers having to submit to unsavory and even dangerous labor practices simply because someone with more power asked them to do so. This is no different within the English teaching industry. One particular labor standard that is common within South Korean English academies that aligns with the first point of the discussion, that being those who teach “Business English”. There are various areas in which one can teach here in Korea (kindergarten, primary, secondary, university, and adult). For those who teach adult learners, the class schedules are fit to business professionals’ working hours so as a “Business English” teacher your classes are placed in the mornings and evenings (before and after the average Korean’s workday). Where this falls into exploitative practices as described above is that the working hours for these jobs are only offered in a “split schedule”, where you work from 7am-12pm, then again from 6-10pm each day. Because employers don’t want to pay teachers for an essentially fifteen hour shift, you are required to clock out for the six hours in-between – despite most employees not being able to effectively commute home and back during that time – and end up staying near/in the academy completing a substantial amount of required progress reports and lesson plans unpaid. II.) This is an attempt to increase exploitation, which is particularly easy for Korean employers to do to foreign workers. Not only is the labor market limited and highly abusive, making it hard to find a quality job to begin with, the visa system is built in such a way that your residence is attached to your current job, you are unable to leave until your current contract is up. If you quit – or are fired – within that time you are required to leave the country within two weeks and cannot return until your original contract is expired. This allows for employers to hold visas over their expat workers’ heads and pressure them to accept whatever conditions they offer just so that they can stay within the country.III.) I believe that Chaplin’s description of the workplace can still be relevant to today’s standards, though I can’t help but realize that many of these “assembly line” style jobs (with the wrenches, hammers, levers and cogs) have since become automized by machinery and robotics. If you look at how most products are mass produced these days – especially food, toys, electronics and auto-motives – the entire process is primarily completed by machinery itself and only periodically guided by humans to make sure things aren’t coming out defective. Especially with the creation of AI and how we’re already seeing its impacts on labor rights in the art and film world, I’m not sure Chaplin could have ever imagined what the labor market and the extent of dehumanized labor practices would become.
POST #2
Working for my current employer, I am currently cross-training for a field position that is a higher pay grade. Although I am content with my current position, I would like the flexibility to be able to get promoted and be prepared when that time comes. Yes, cross-training is a benefit for me, but not when I am constantly asked to work overtime within that position, yet not receive the hourly rate that position offers. Also keeping in mind that the responsibility of the field position is almost double my current responsibilities. The theories were a critique of capitalism and its shortcomings. Marx thought that the capitalistic system would inevitably destroy itself. The oppressed workers would become alienated and ultimately overthrow the owners to take control of the means of production themselves, ushering in a classless society. Marx described exploitation as the theft of economic power in all class-based societies, including capitalism, through the working class (or the proletariat, as Marx called them) being forced to sell their labor. The rate of exploitation is the ratio of the total amount of unpaid labor done to the total amount of wages paid and the value of labor power. The rate of exploitation is often also called the rate of surplus value. The same compensation increases exploitation because according to Marxism is a social, economic, and political philosophy that analyses the impact of the ruling class on laborers, leading to the uneven distribution of wealth and privileges in society. It stimulates the workers to protest the injustice. On occasions, it was quieted by doles of bread from the state and diverted by spectacle bread and circuses. I think the “Modern Times” has endured the test of time even in our modern situation because Chaplin was creating a testament to his times of extreme poverty and employment during the Great Depression in the 1930s when he made the film in 1936. The 2022 viewing brings everything shown in the film into alignment with the conditions that plague us even nowadays and are still relevant to our modern situation. It is not a bygone era that we have in mind when we see Chaplin meddle around the city, looking for a job or being caught in a strike of the workers against a better quality of work and more wages. Chaplin also would not have realized that the “modern” times that he refers to in the film would hold true almost a century later as well, more in some parts of the world than in others, but assuming different forms. At the very basic level, it is but an explosion of capitalism that deems some people as machines not to be given basic dignity and equal resources while some people at the top have their hands filled with wealth.