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capitalist exploitation

Capitalist exploitation simply means the fact that after its commodification the price of your work force on the market is much lower than the value it produces.

Think about it this way: worker X in company Y is producing commodity Z (goods&services). But a wage's worth of commodity Z is created by worker X in only a few hours of labour. The value his work force is rented for by the capitalist is much smaller than the value it creates. The private person owning company Y (don't forget corporations are also legal private subjects) then

appropriates the surplus value created by the labourer.

Simply put: if a labourer creates the value of his wage in a very small amount of his labouring time, who then, is he in fact labouring for most of the time?

Not only does capitalist exploitation entail that most of the value that working people create will be appropriated from them, but also that their limited precious time on this planet will be appropriated from them.
Mark sold 100 fast food meals priced at $5 in 8 hours. In two days the total value he creates is $1000. Yet he has to work for a full month to receive a salary, a wage of $800. Because Mark in unaware of capitalist exploitation he believes he is reverencing a fair pay for his work when in fact he is labouring extensively for the profit of other people.
by daskapital July 13, 2014
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capital wasteland

1. The main location in a popular video game called Fallout 3 ( Basically a destroyed Washington D . C )

2. The real Washington D . C could still be considered a Capital Wasteland due to crime , crooked cops , crooked politicians , as well as it's strange on again off again gun ban laws that violate the constitution from the same country and so forth.
( example 1 ) Gamer 1 : " I killed a super mutant at the capital wasteland. "

Gamer 2 : " I didn't know you liked Fallout 3 ".

( example 2 ) Man 1 : " I got a job working for the government. "

Man 2 : " Really where at ? "

Man 1: " The Capital Wasteland. "
by The EVIL Vault Boy July 19, 2012
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Axe of Capitalism

A very powerful weapon used by the cloak.
And that's what you get. You get my axe of capitalism, right in your face.
by MrNarwhal101 August 22, 2010
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Caping

when you blindly defend someone, no matter how wrong they are.
In his argument with Vetta, Larry kept saying, "don't be mean to Susan."
"Why are you caping so hard for Susan, when you know she slapped my mom?" Vetta asks angrily.
"Because she's my friend." Larry said.
by waking&shaking November 23, 2015
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Super capitalism

While in normal capitalism a few fat cats sit at the top, super capitalism is so invested in the private entreprise that every single individual collectively owns a portion of the business, in order to prevent the interference of private ownership with inelastic market forces such as health care or public transportation.
SUPER CAPITALISM! GET YOUR CAPITAL TODAY!
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Super Capitalism

Like normal capitalism, but SUPER.

While in regular capitalism anybody could become rich, in SUPER capitalism EVERYBODY can get rich because private ownership has been SUPERfied so much that everybody privately owns part of the business they work at.
"Hey, doesn't this SUPER Capitalism thing sound a bit like Market Socialism?"
"Nah, socialism means Hitler."
by Sitbear December 31, 2020
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Crony Capitalism

n. Crony capitalism is a colloquial term describing a "market economy" in which success in business depends on close relationships between business people and government officials. It may be exhibited by favoritism to connected businesses in the distribution of legal permits, government grants, special tax breaks, and so forth. This favoritism is rewarded by campaign contributions or outright kickbacks to politicians or their supporters. As such, it creates an oxymoron of sorts, in that success of a business in a free market (capitalism) does not depend on free-market forces. It is also a obvious source of corruption of both business and government.
In the United States, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are examples of Crony Capitalism. Government backing let Fannie and Freddie dominate mortgage underwriting. The politicians created the mortgage giants, which then returned some of the profits to the politicians - sometimes directly, as campaign funds; sometimes as "contributions" to favored constituents.
by Dan Weyandt October 5, 2011
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