[PDF] exploitations

What is the meaning of exploitation?

n. 1. The act of employing to the greatest possible advantage: exploitation of copper deposits. 2. Utilization of another person or group for selfish purposes: exploitation of unwary consumers. 3. An advertising or publicity program. American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition.

Is exploitation a bad thing?

If this is the case, call it exploitation. When you’re talking about natural resources or knowledge rather than people, exploitation meaning "the fullest most profitable use of something" is not a bad thing. The exploitation of recycled materials can only be beneficial to our pollution problems.

What are the attitudinal conditions of exploitation?

Accounts of exploitation that depart from the traditional analysis that relies only on unfairness generally append one of three attitudinal conditions. They claim that in addition to, or in place of unfairness, exploitation involves either domination, disrespect, or an awareness of one’s unfair advantage.

Is exploitation a structural property?

But exploitation can also be structural —a property of institutions or systems in which the “rules of the game” unfairly benefit one group of people to the detriment of another. As we will see below, Karl Marx believed that the economic and political institutions of capitalism were exploitative in this sense.