{"id":501,"date":"2024-01-05T14:53:56","date_gmt":"2024-01-05T21:53:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/marginalnonhermit.com\/?p=501"},"modified":"2024-01-05T15:22:14","modified_gmt":"2024-01-05T22:22:14","slug":"pet-peeves-exploitation-theory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marginalnonhermit.com\/?p=501","title":{"rendered":"Pet Peeves: &#8220;Exploitation Theory&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"odysee-iframe\" width=\"560\" height=\"110\" src=\"https:\/\/odysee.com\/$\/embed\/@MarginalNonHermit:3\/pet-peeves-exploitation-theory:2?r=8gvoByECHNgc2BfQ5o91oxf89bpi1Ui4\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">&#8220;Exploitation theory&#8221; is something I see being constantly used in socialist arguments, even today. What you won&#8217;t hear is that exploitation theory is an uneconomic mess that was completely destroyed by advances in price theory that happened while Marx was still alive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Oddly enough, even Marx&#8217;s opponents, like Kropotkin in <em>The Conquest of Bread<\/em>, use this faulty idea of exploitation to make their arguments, and it&#8217;s kind of painful to watch.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Above, in a ~16 minute video, I&#8217;ll break down the problems with exploitation theory and provide a concrete example where a person might choose to rent a tool from another without either person exploiting the other, and with no aggression or differences in ability.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">The bottom line is this: anytime someone tells you somebody is exploiting someone else without providing evidence, you <em>can<\/em> simply dismiss them using the arguments in this video. Their attempts to label certain relationships as exploitative is just them trying to steal a base, and you shouldn&#8217;t let them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">My <a href=\"https:\/\/marginalnonhermit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/contra-exploitation-notes.pdf\">notes and script<\/a>, if you want to read them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Video also available on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bitchute.com\/video\/S2SiTZjDDwMn\/\">BitChute<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Exploitation theory&#8221; is something I see being constantly used in socialist arguments, even today. What you won&#8217;t hear is that exploitation theory is an uneconomic mess that was completely destroyed by advances in price theory that happened while Marx was still alive. Oddly enough, even Marx&#8217;s opponents, like Kropotkin in The Conquest of Bread, use [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":348,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6,2],"tags":[188,37,187,186],"class_list":["post-501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-economics","category-essay","category-video-link","tag-debunk-exploitation-theory","tag-economics","tag-exploitation-theory","tag-marxism"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/marginalnonhermit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/books-25.jpg?fit=638%2C235&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marginalnonhermit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marginalnonhermit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marginalnonhermit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marginalnonhermit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marginalnonhermit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=501"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/marginalnonhermit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":506,"href":"https:\/\/marginalnonhermit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501\/revisions\/506"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marginalnonhermit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marginalnonhermit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marginalnonhermit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marginalnonhermit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}