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THE EXPLOITATION OF LABOUR AND THE EUROPEAN VALUES
extent only. Consequently, it can have hardly any impact on events that pose grave
dangers to society. It is especially true of techniques of advocacy manifested at
global levels, which have become widely accepted and therefore seem to be normal
and the danger they pose to society remains unnoticed.
The above-mentioned difficulties in legislation and the application of law serve
as a warning — even among present-day, cataclysmic circumstances that were rated
as rare occurrences by Farkas — that curbing the exploitation of labour is only
possible by laying new foundations for production. We are faced with an important
systemic error, the elimination of which also requires the rethinking of — among
others — such basic concepts as, for instance, the wellbeing of citizens.*°
This change can be facilitated by the successful management of the Covid-19
epidemic. From this respect, it is worth noting that the European Union took a
common stand to regulate the private sector and even secured uniform principles
for the acquisition and distribution of vaccines.** The above examples, however, are
only rays of hope yet. The methods for overcoming the epidemic seem to override
the previously discussed moral weaknesses for the time being. Still, the above¬
mentioned initiative cannot make us forget that although the European Union
is trying to distribute vaccines fairly this method deprives the poorer part of the
world of accessing the vaccine production capacity.”
CONCLUSIONS
It would be possible to change the habits, partly of production, partly of consumption
that have roots in the political-economic system if some “rules of the game” were
radically transformed. One of them, for instance, is the separation of political
and economic power centres, which have been nearly completely intertwined (we
could also say hopelessly entangled) and the redefinition of the separation and
the distribution of social policy and economic policy functions. Accepting this
statement means that the first thing to do is to change the legal environment of the
conditions of production. This, in turn, means that the assessment of the different
30 See the example of New Zealand here: Eleanor Ainge Roy, New Zealand ‘wellbeing’ budget
promises billions to care for most vulnerable, The Guardian (30 May 2019), https://www.
theguardian.com/world/2019/may/30/new-zealand-wellbeing-budget-jacinda-ardern¬
unveils-billions-to-care-for-most-vulnerable.
31 For more detail, see Katalin Siposs opinion here: Radó, Nóra, A válság válhat az új normalitássá
a Földön, Oubit (26 January 2021), https://gubit.hu/2021/01/26/a-valsag-valhat-az-uj¬
normalitassa-a-foldon?_ga=2.203679065.856786797.1611430484-1283964420.1499259203.
52 Fehér, János, A magukat oltató gazdag országok hátrahagyták a szerencsétleneket, és ez
mindenkinek rossz lesz, Telex.hu (23 January 2021), https://telex.hu/koronavirus/2021/01/23/
vakcina-hozzaferes-elosztas-igazsagtalansag-szegeny-orszagok-oltas-nelkul-who.
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