[BurningFrog]

The word "exploit" is thrown around a lot.

AFAIKT it only means that other people are having an interaction that the speaker finds repulsive.

This makes "exploitation" in the eye of the beholder, and not something that can be objectively measured or discussed.

[tsimionescu]

Exploitation is any relationship where one party profits much more than the other party. It is opposed to a mutually beneficial relationship, where both parties profit approximately the same.

Of course, the crux of whether something is mutually beneficial or exploitatative is how you define "much more" vs "approximately the same".

In (chattel) slavery, it is quite clear that the slave gets almost nothing, while the master receives huge benefits, so almost everyone agrees that it is a form of exploitation.

Some people also consider most employment contracts as exploitative (wage slavery), as the owners of a company extract more money than the workers get in compensation (profit is essentially exactly the difference between what the workers and capital owners were payed and what the vue of their work was - and it is entirely the property of the owners, not the workers). Whether you believe the difference between the value you bring to the company and the wages you are paid is large or small will more or less determine whether you think the company is exploiting you or you are in a mutually beneficial relationship with it - and neither option is objectively right or wrong.

Still, the difference isn't as arbitrary as you make it out to be.

[jdasdf]

>It is opposed to a mutually beneficial relationship, where both parties profit approximately the same.

That's not what a mutually beneficial relationship is.

>Some people also consider most employment contracts as exploitative (wage slavery), as the owners of a company extract more money than the workers get in compensation (profit is essentially exactly the difference between what the workers and capital owners were payed and what the vue of their work was - and it is entirely the property of the owners, not the workers). Whether you believe the difference between the value you bring to the company and the wages you are paid is large or small will more or less determine whether you think the company is exploiting you or you are in a mutually beneficial relationship with it - and neither option is objectively right or wrong.

And now I see that you're simply spewing socialist ideology with no grounding in reality.

[cheese_goddess]

Here's a wikipedia article on Trafficking Children:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trafficking_of_children

Have fun trying to adhere to moral relativism while reading it.