Some Zionists opposed treating low Palestinian Jewish wages as a market advantage.

Evidence

Smilansky was disappointed by expert economists who were leading the project, Prof. Warburg and Dr. Oppenheimer and particularly criticized the latter for his view on low wages and low standard of living of Jewish workers in Palestine as an advantage in conquering the world markets. — Ivan Davidson Kalmar, Derek Penslar, Orientalism and the Jews, 1197

Categorization

• CANDY: Internal Zionism debate where low-wage global competitiveness was pitched as a virtue rather than a labor problem.