I think at this present moment, when neither the subjects of the West or the Global South have a monopoly on exploitation, there is nothing particularly revelatory in showing a miner being exploited in Ghana when a fourteen year old working in the super market around the corner on a zero hour contract for below minimum wage is just as much a victim of global capitalism. Perhaps what would be really shocking and difficult to find and show at the moment would be to find examples of the un-exploited worker.
isnt that the explicit rationale of comparative advantage - mutual exploitation is supposed to make all work harder and be better off
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another idea of the "unexploited". This article is all about how the super wealthy are super anxious and feel financially insecure. I guess the cultural figure is the "poor little rich boy/girl" but my sense is that figure sort of left the culture at some point. I sort of associate it with a more Dickensian era. http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2011/04/secret-fears-of-the-super-rich/308419/
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