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Yes, but how many people reading HN are truly exploited. Only if you let them...

Exploited to me smacks of child labor and indentured servitude. I highly doubt there are child laborers and true slaves reading HN. But they do exist, and in larger numbers than you probably thought possible:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery#Current_situation

That's more than the population of many countries.




exploited

to make use of meanly or unfairly for one's own advantage <exploiting migrant farm workers>

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/exploited

Some people are exploited in ways that are horrific compared to how other people are exploited. But until we have words specifically to describe white-collar workers, I'm going to use the available words that I think are most apt.


"Some people are exploited in ways that are horrific compared to how other people are exploited. But until we have words specifically to describe white-collar workers, I'm going to use the available words that I think are most apt."

I realize that some white-collar works are truly exploited. However, most of the people that I see complain about being "exploited" just don't have the balls to quit their job.




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