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> I’m not saying you’re a bad person or a parasite, our landlady is lovely, but you have to be frank about the fact that someone else is working to enrich you t
by juve1996 3y ago
> I’m not saying you’re a bad person or a parasite, our landlady is lovely, but you have to be frank about the fact that someone else is working to enrich you to some level.
You can make this argument about literally any purchased good. Everything bought by a worker is the same thing.
- smogcutter 3y agoYou’re so close to figuring it out
- endisneigh 3y agowhat exactly is the point, then?
- throwawaytemp29 3y agoCapitalism = exploitation? That seems like the point they are trying to make. And it’s mostly not wrong, although we haven’t found a better way. Perhaps more accurately, human behavior = economic behavior = exploitation, regardless of the economic system. Expanding it out, I doubt it’s specific to humans, more like a property of known life forms.
- s1artibartfast 3y agoYou also have to believe that a willing Exchange that benefits both parties is exploitation. It also doesn't help that exploitation is so poorly defined in these discussions that it could simply be substituted by "bad" or "something I don't like".
- ShroudedNight 3y agoThe financial asymmetry of having certain baseline costs to sustain our biomechanical meat bags despite wildly divergent means can easily lead to transactions that are mutually beneficial, while still reenforcing the leverage of those who already have plenty.
- skinnymuch 3y agoI’d be interested in your response to the person who replied to you. It’s a compelling argument against exploitation being vague. Which isn’t even true unless you mean conversations between liberals and conservatives.
- s1artibartfast 3y agoIt is a interesting and workable definition for further discussion once it is provided. In my experience you ask 10 people what exploitation means and you get 10 different answers- everyone has their own. That said, I like it and would be interested in exploring it more. Exploitations is a transaction that increases leverage for future transactions is one that I havent heard before. Im also curious about the inverse.e.g. what transactions reduce leverage?
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