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Originally posted by Agamemnon@Jan 8 2005, 10:11 AM
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By removing government oversight in many industries/institutions, those bodies are left wide open to 'private' (corporate) exploitation.
Corporate exploitation is a marxist term. How can a private corporation exploit anyone on a free market? Give me one example where free market capitalism exploits anyone.
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This is definitely one I bet we'll agree to disagree on. First off, there is no 'free market capitalism', every market in the world lives under massive regulation and subsidization. Secondly, a semi-example would be something as simple as child-labour in East Asia. American companies legally employ millions of very under-paid and impovershed workers to do dangerous, and often unsanitary work that American counterparts would charge much, much more. Shifting some of these societies to dependence on subsistance US (West) corporate handouts is 'exploitation' in my books. If you'd like to go further into your theory that the free market has never exploited anyone, I'd love to hear more, it sounds very interesting.
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if a kid is free to choose and is not a slave, then its not exploitation
the corporation is just offering an opportunity.