#exploit

All the mega corporations on the planet make their obscene profits off the labor and suffering of others, with complete disregard for the effects on the workers, environment, and future generations. As with the banking sector, they play games with the lives of millions, hysterically reject any kind of government intervention when the profits are rolling in, but are quick to pass the bill for the cleanup and the far-reaching consequences of these avoidable tragedies to the public when things go wrong. We have a straightforward proposal: if they want public money, we want public control. It's that simple. ↗

— Michael Hureaux-Perez

#capitalism #corporations #deepwater #economic-interventionism #environment

Products made in China are cheap through the exploitation of the workforce. Every time we shop, we are driving the nail further into the coffin of American manufacturing jobs. ↗

— Joe Baca

#cheap #china #coffin #driving #every

So there's always been this clash between what is the public good - that which belongs to all of us in common - and what can be exploited for a private interest. ↗

— Neil Abercrombie

#been #belongs #between #clash #common

The individual mirrors in his individuation the preordained social laws of exploitation, however mediated. ↗

— Theodor Adorno

#his #however #individual #individuation #laws

Europe became rich because it exploited Africa; and the Africans know that. ↗

— Desmond Tutu

#became #because #europe #exploited #know

Religion is a means of exploitation employed by the strong against the weak; religion is a cloak of ambition, injustice and vice. ↗

— Georges Bizet

#ambition #cloak #employed #exploitation #injustice

The rights paradigm, which, as I interpret it, morally requires the abolition of animal exploitation and requires veganism as a matter of fundamental justice, is radically different from the welfarist paradigm, which, in theory focuses on reducing suffering, and, in reality, focuses on tidying up animal exploitation at its economically inefficient edges. In science, those who subscribe to one paradigm are often unable to understand and engage those who subscribe to another paradigm precisely because the theoretical language that they use is not compatible. I think that the situation is similar in the context of the debate between animal rights and animal welfare. And that is why welfarists simply cannot understand or accept the slavery analogy. ↗

— Gary L. Francione

#abolitionist #ahimsa #animals #education #exploitation

This law … defines the limits of competition in the community of life. You may compete to the full extent of your capabilities, but you may not hunt down your competitors or destroy their food or deny them access to food. In other words, you may compete but you may not wage war. ↗

— Daniel Quinn

#ecology #exploitation #philosophy #food

My exploits are nothing now to the average person. ↗

— David Bailey

#average person #exploits #nothing #now #person

The real harm of term extension comes not from these famous works. The real harm is to the works that are not famous, not commercially exploited, and no longer available as a result. ↗

— Lawrence Lessig

#comes #commercially #exploited #extension #famous