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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. [/b][/quote]
Exactly.
The corporation is giving the kid another option. And the simple fact that the kid is working there should tell you that this kid values this option more than every other option he has.
Sure you can say it is a crappy option. But it is the BEST option out of all the kid has.
Another important thing is to ask - why there is no better option for the kid out there? Well, precisely because there is a lack of capitalism in his country, because there is a lack of other corporations, competition, etc. In short, capital in his country is not accumulated highly enough, thus productivity in the country is low (and the family cannot survive if the kids dont work).
Now suppose this big corporations leave. What then? Kid is out of work and has to settle for option he values less (searching dumpsters for food). His family has bigger trouble to survive. How they are better off WITHOUT big corporations?
The trouble for the poor is NOT capitalism and globalization. The trouble for the poor is lack of capitalism and globalization and leftist who fight hard against both.