Parr, Tom2022-04-292022-04-292024Parr T. In cash we trust? Journal of Applied Philosophy. 2024 May;41(2):251-66. DOI: 10.1111/japp.125830264-3758http://hdl.handle.net/10230/52942Many individuals have miserable work lives, in which they must toil away at mind-numbing yet exhausting tasks for hours on end, being ordered about by their superiors, perhaps with few guarantees that this source of income will persist for very long. However, this is only half of the story: what is centrally important is that many of those who endure these conditions are denied a fair wage in return for the burdens that they bear. In this article, I reflect on the significance of this fact in order to argue for the evaporation thesis. This thesis holds that individuals’ claims to particular employment-related protections from their government disappear as their earnings increase. In the course of defending this position, I explore the moral difference an employee's wage offer makes to the work conditions that we can expect her to accept, including why there are limits to the role that cash can play here.application/pdfeng© 2022 The Author. Journal of Applied Philosophy published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd on behalf of Society for Applied Philosophy. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.Treballadors -- Condicions socialsTreballadorsSalarisinfo:eu-repo/semantics/articlehttp://dx.doi.org/10.1111/japp.12583info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess