• Sybil@lemmy.world
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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.

    • schmidtster@lemmy.world
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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.