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>"exploited" is a matter of perspective. No, not really. If the bosses and investors are taking the surplus value, defined as the gap between wages+capital co
by eli_gottlieb 10y ago
>"exploited" is a matter of perspective.
No, not really. If the bosses and investors are taking the surplus value, defined as the gap between wages+capital costs and actual revenues, then the worker is exploited.
- sokoloff 10y agoThat is technically correct (the best kind of correct). Just as I exploit electricity to provide light in my house, or exploit Exxon/Mobil when I derive $5 of utility from a gallon of gas that I swindled them into selling me for $2.50 or exploit Apple when I'd be willing to pay 50% more (or more) for my Macbook than they actually charge, because I use it to make money. As applied to labor, "exploited" generally means something much stronger than "employed to a productive end".
- ajmurmann 10y agoThe market in this case is being kept artificially inefficient to benefit corporations to the direct detriment of foreign workers and indirect detriment of local workers.
- tim333 10y agoIt's technically correct if you are a Marxist as Marx used the term that way. Otherwise the dictionary has "The action or fact of treating someone unfairly in order to benefit from their work."
- sokoloff 10y agoI agree with you (at least assume strongly that I do), but I couldn't find a dictionary with that as the first definition. Most of the first definitions were more along the lines of "make full use of and derive benefit from (a resource)", making GP technically correct.
- tim333 10y agoThat one was from http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/exploitation http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/exploit... I guess people use the term in different ways.