• schmidtster@lemmy.world
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    11 months 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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      11 months ago

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

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      11 months ago

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

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        11 months ago

        There are other words in the definitions that mean the same.

        What do you think unfair and underhanded means….?

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          11 months ago

          to be clear, my definition is correct, and you are objecting to the connotation of other definitions. this is very much your problem .

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      11 months ago

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