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Profiting from poverty
Koksvik, Ole Øverland, Gerhard
Koksvik, Ole
Øverland, Gerhard
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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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Poverty, poverty-profit principle, sweatshops, profiting from poverty, benefiting from injustice, exploitation
Date
2019
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Journal article
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Canadian Journal of Philosophy
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49
Issue
3
Page Range
341-367
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