Here are definitions from Merriam-Webster online dictionary, but what is your take?

Exploitation (noun): an act or instance of exploiting Exploit (verb): 1.) to make productive use of; 2.) to make use of meanly or unfairly for one’s own advantage

Monetization (verb): 1.) to coin into money; 2.) to purchase (public or private debt) and thereby free for other uses moneys that would have been devoted to debt service; 3.) to utilize (something of value) as a source of profit

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  • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Could be the equally exhausting polar opposite too: seeing every case of economic exploitation as just smart monetization.

    At the risk of sounding like the Enlightened Centrists I so loathe, both of those arguments are ridiculously extreme and completely divorced from reality.