Exploitation

Free enterprise is exploitation, exploitation of opportunity, resources, capital, and people. The word "exploitation" has assumed a negative connatation, but it needn't always be negative.

The lower the fruit, we know, the more readily exploited.

Young people are the most easily exploited, for they tend to have less power to resist it. Thus it is the young who are forced to die in our wars, and to do the jobs the more senior members of society reject.

There was a time when children were paid pennies to deliver newspapers.

Young adult athletes are given free tuition, room and board, and in return for this they earn universities millions of dollars. Meanwhile they walk around campus flat broke.

A football player at a major university is worth as much as one hundred thousand dollars a year to the institution, and a male basketball player as much as two hundred thousand.

Often, people are voluntarily exploited.