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Originally Posted by Unregistered

You sound so pompous in your "critique" of worker rights. Perhaps you can put your money where your loud mouth is and volunteer to work 18 hours a day, seven days a week, since you appreciate being "exploited" so much, unlike those riff raff (perhaps different-looking in your mind's eye) "day laborers."

I made no comment on worker's rights. Surely there were more problems 100 years ago and I do not diminish them. But my comments were not my own observations, but those of a professor and writer of logic that noted (without comment one way or the other on any underlying issues) on the way Marx and others use rhetorical tricks, including equivocation, to say things that are not necessarily true but get the reader/listener to accept what is said. If you want to take exception with the example, you would have to take it up with him. In any case, your response makes you seem rather knee-jerk and unwilling to actually consider the idea that an unannounced transition from a purely benign word to the presumption that it means something that it does not is problematic. Even if you think there could be an actual problem. Surely many workers were exploited in a negative way at the time. But it wasn't because economics called the use of any resource, including labor, to be to "exploit" it. Whether or not you like the example, it is a type of logical error or rhetorical device used (exploited?) to trick the unaware into believing something that may not be true. To avoid the need to make an actual case for or against something.