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Exploitation, the noble, Objectivist concept of work. If you're not paid enough to live on, get another job, if there's no better job, go die in the woods, someone else needs your job.
This tongue-in-cheek definition is offered because it illustrated why non-objective notions like "exploitation" are rationally unusable terms.
 
Exploitation: "when someone works for terms that I would not accept." -- Bearster
 
In common parlance, "exploitation" is an emotionally-charged term used to describe the employer-employee relationship. It is an intellectually dishonest attempt to portray something as bad or immoral without bothering to make a rational argument to show that it is so.

Latest revision as of 15:57, 25 April 2007

This tongue-in-cheek definition is offered because it illustrated why non-objective notions like "exploitation" are rationally unusable terms.

Exploitation: "when someone works for terms that I would not accept." -- Bearster

In common parlance, "exploitation" is an emotionally-charged term used to describe the employer-employee relationship. It is an intellectually dishonest attempt to portray something as bad or immoral without bothering to make a rational argument to show that it is so.