• schmidtster@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Unless they are forced to it can’t be exploitation.

    Now if they work health benefits into instead of just paying better wages, that would be more on the exploitation side. But thats the bad eggs ruining it for the other 98% that don’t abuse it.

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      1 year ago

      it’s definitely exploitation. you just don’t like the connotation. they are being exploited for their blood just like a well is exploited for oil a mountain is exploited for minerals and forests are exploited for wood.

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        1 year ago

        Exploit has multiple meanings, exploiting a resource and exploiting someone in an underhand or unfair way do have the same phrase to explain them. But exploiting a resource is obviously much different than treating workers unfairly.

        Verbs and nouns typically have different meanings for the same word, maybe time for an English refresher.