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1. Meetin+(OP)[view] [source] 2024-09-15 22:48:18
Most shady businesses can be boiled down to, “we exploit people for personal gain”.

Which is always bad.

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2. tourma+22[view] [source] 2024-09-15 23:10:58
>>Meetin+(OP)
Apple: exploits factory workers to fulfill the customer’s desire for status symbols.

McDonalds: exploits hunger by conditioning you to desire convenient, unhealthy, and ultimately unsatisfying food.

TikTok: exploits your dopamine to condition you to watch content, keeping you entertained with new quick doses constantly.

You can pick almost any major company and find some way they exploit someone else.

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3. Meetin+8b[view] [source] [discussion] 2024-09-16 01:11:59
>>tourma+22
> You can pick almost any major company and find some way they exploit someone else.

Correction, you can pick any extremely large corporation.

Very large (i.e. successful) exploit people by design. Businesses not willing to exploit people are at a disadvantage and can never be as successful as those that are willing to exploit others.

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4. tsunam+Tw[view] [source] [discussion] 2024-09-16 06:01:05
>>Meetin+8b
You are being down voted but many years on this earth building trillion dollar companies has taught me you are right in a way no one wants to hear
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5. ben_w+Nx[view] [source] 2024-09-16 06:11:02
>>Meetin+(OP)
"Exploit" (mostly) only has a negative connotation in the context of people; if you exploit a resource or an opportunity, it seldom gets seen the same way.

Because of the latter, businesses leaders can also quite often talk about the former without even noticing that normal people regard "exploiting people" as a bad thing.

Sometimes it's hard to even agree what counts as exploitation of a person: The profit margin of every successful employer I've ever had is, in some sense, them exploiting me — but I've also worked in places where that's negative, loss-making, and the investors paid for my time with the profits made from others, which feels to me like the successes I've been involved with paying for the failures, not exploitation.

6. hnbad+JC[view] [source] 2024-09-16 07:14:17
>>Meetin+(OP)
Exploitation and profit are the same concept just different framing. The distinction between shady and non is usually more about who is being exploited, to what extent they're being exploited and how transparent the business is about that exploitation.
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7. tourma+KI[view] [source] [discussion] 2024-09-16 08:18:26
>>tsunam+Tw
The richest business in history was the Dutch East India Company. The richest below them are the Mississippi Company, rounding it out with the South Sea Company. Within the top 10 includes oil companies, who exploit our future for profit, and Big Tech, who exploit us for profit. Is it any surprise most of the richest companies in history exploited human capital for massive gains?
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8. RobotT+BN[view] [source] [discussion] 2024-09-16 09:14:50
>>tourma+22
Pretty sure a dude called Karl wrote a book about this.
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