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Can a deal be unfair if both sides agree to it?
A desperate person accepts poverty wages, or sells a kidney, because every other option is worse. They chose it, and it may still be exploitation.
Your answer
A little context
Your landlord tells you the rent is going up by a third, take it or leave it, and you take it, because moving would cost more. You signed. Nobody forced the pen into your hand. And yet fair isn't the word you'd use.
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