Re:Laid-Off Americans, Required to Zip Lips on Way Out, Grow...
by ajmurmann on Saturday June 11, 2016 @07:42PM
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The 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.
Re:Laid-Off Americans, Required to Zip Lips on Way Out, Grow...
by tim333 on Saturday June 11, 2016 @08:04PM
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It'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."
Re:Laid-Off Americans, Required to Zip Lips on Way Out, Grow...
by sokoloff on Saturday June 11, 2016 @08:24PM
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I 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.
Re:Laid-Off Americans, Required to Zip Lips on Way Out, Grow...
by tim333 on Sunday June 12, 2016 @07:48AM
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That one was from http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/exploit...
I guess people use the term in different ways.
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".