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The art of squeezing value from someone who didn't notice the squeeze.
means The act of using a person, resource, or situation for one's own advantage — often unfairly and at another's expense.
from From the French 'exploiter,' to make productive use of, which descends from the Latin 'explicare,' to unfold or unfurl — the same root that gives us 'explicate' and 'exploit.' The image is literally of opening something up to get at what's inside. The neutral sense of 'developing a resource' came first; the darker flavor of wringing profit from people, not just mines and land, sharpened in the 19th century, especially in the hands of social critics.
- film genre
- Cheap shock cinema named for milking taboo subjects
- economics
- Marx defined profit as unpaid worker labor
- ecology
- Species exploit resources until the resource crashes
- word root
- From French exploiter, simply meaning to use
- colonial era
- Empires called extraction development to look respectable
amazon rainforest logging — illegal operations removing 10,000+ trees daily from indigenous lands in brazil, peru, colombia
foxconn iphone factories — shenzhen electronics manufacturer where workers earning $17/day assemble devices selling for $999
bangladeshi garment factories — rana plaza collapse in 2013 killed 1,134 workers producing $5 shirts for western retailers
cobalt mining congo — democratic republic of congo produces 70% of world cobalt with child miners earning under $1/day