The entire idea of economic transactions being exploitative is literal Marxist propaganda. If you read the word "exploit" in some news article and it's referring to economic transactions, you are reading propaganda.
To employ to the greatest possible advantage.
To make use of selfishly or unethically.> Economic transactions only happen if there is a mutual benefit.
There are all sorts of coercive circumstances that may appear mutually beneficial on a superficial level, but may actually not be the case, whether due to contract details, opportunity costs, strategic mistakes, or otherwise. Perhaps this is true given perfect information and execution, but the real world is much more messy.
As an example, consider Spotify or Adobe's transition to a subscription model. There are a lot of people for whom those models are a very bad deal compared to what was.
Also, putting any value on "studies" when they almost universally fail to replicate outside of hard sciences is dumb.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GYOm6ciXcAAZ0vl?format=jpg&name=...
You see, all the fake fields of studies are field with leftists. And sure, you might say democrats aren't leftists, which is what every dumbass marxist says.
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