• schmidtster@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Exploit has multiple meanings, exploiting a resource and exploiting someone in an underhand or unfair way do have the same phrase to explain them. But exploiting a resource is obviously much different than treating workers unfairly.

    Verbs and nouns typically have different meanings for the same word, maybe time for an English refresher.

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      1 year ago

      since you clearly went to a dictionary, you can see none of the definitions even mention “force”.

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      1 year ago

      mounds and greens have nothing to do with this. we are only using the transitive verb here.

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      1 year ago

      I’m using it correctly. don’t be condescending. you might think it’s a fair exploitation, but it’s exploitation nonetheless.