Is There Such Thing As "Exploitive Capitalism"?

[Scorponok]

Yesterday, I was surfing the channels, looking for something interesting to watch, when I came across one of those infomercials about alms for Africa. They took their cameras to this remote lil African village where there were a lot of black people.

They focused on this one particular woman. She had two children, and one was very sick from Malaria or something, and she couldn't afford medicine. Her other 4 sons had died.

They then showed her cutting and raking what looked like tall grass, and it said she makes less than $1 a week. They went on to mention this was because of "exploitive capitalism". I'm not sure of the exact wording that was used, but it was something similar to that.

So my question to you guys is this:

Is there such thing as "exploitive capitalism"? And if such thing exists, what is it, and how would you define it? Should it be allowed?

Discuss!

 

[Archibald Nixon]

Sounds to me like a redundancy, like "mental telepathy". Capitalism by its very nature exploits; the question is whether you think exploitation (in the most basic sense of the word, which a lot of people ignore because it's acquired a pejorative cast) is positive or negative.

There are lots of other aspects of captialism, like gouging, that certainly fly off the rails of any moral sense. Your description of the mechanism that keeps this person from changing her circumstances seems a little vague. Who's paying her to cut "tall grass"? Is the problem the employer, or the medical establisment? Are local (or larger) politics involved?

Of course, my sum-total knowledge of this sort of thing comes from flicks like Constant Gardener & Blood Diamond...I'll be in my armchair.

 

[Volpone]

Thank you. That was my take on it as well. Ideally capitalism is a mutually exploitive situation. Each party has something the other wants and they exploit that to trade goods and services.

 

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