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Season 3 Episode 34: Exploitation (ft. Lillian Cicerchia)

Give Them An Argument

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Are You Taking Your Own Labor?

In all class societies, like slaves produce, am a surplus for landowner. Peasants produce a surplus that is partly for their own subsistence. And likewise, under capitalism, you get something back for your own subsistence. So they take the extra and an aggregate from all the workers, and then they re invest it - this is called exploitation. It's unfair because it takes either lack of reciprocity between moral equals, or taking advantage of the vulnerable.

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