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That argument can only come from a place of insulation from reality. If you have never been exploited by someone with power over you, you have lived a remarkably coddled life. What is astonishing is the claim that there is nothing inherently wrong with a power imbalance so extreme that one side effectively dominates the other. This is not about capitalism versus socialism. Different systems have different ways of addressing exploitation, but the exploitation itself exists because people do harmful, self-serving things to one another. Maybe not everyone, and in a healthy society maybe not even most people, but enough that it is neither rare nor hypothetical. I am not going to argue about whether wage slavery exists, because you would retreat into semantics and pretend it is not exploitation when someone “agrees” to a poverty wage to avoid hunger or eviction. Denying this reality is absurd and shows a complete disconnection from what most people actually experience. Those so out of touch with this reality fail to grasp essentials of the basic human experience. What hope could they possibly have of understanding the man-boy experience? |