exploitation
Taking selfish advantage
Exploitation is the act of using something or someone for benefit—often with connotations of unfairness or extraction.
Natural resources are exploited for profit; workers may be exploited through low wages and poor conditions.
The word can be neutral exploitation of new technology but more often suggests taking advantage: corporate exploitation of cheap labor.
In film, exploitation refers to low-budget movies emphasizing sensational content: blaxploitation, sexploitation.
Illegal transport for profit
- prostitutionCommercial sexual services
- coercionPressured compliance through threats
- groomingSelf-care for appearance
- pimpingProfiting from prostitutes
abuse · objectification · pornography · solicitation · red-light · vice · predatory · vulnerable
Underhanded control of others
- preyingHunting to consume
- targetingSelecting as objective
- scammingDefrauding through deception
- deceptionIntentional misleading of others
coercion · intimidation · fraud · con · swindling · predatory · grooming · gaslighting
Extending dominion over others
- colonizationForeign territorial takeover
- extractionAct of removing
- subjugationForcing into submission
- empireDomain under unified control
conquest · plunder · dispossession · native · indigenous · plantation · mercantilism · settler
Converting something into revenue
- profiteeringExploiting scarcity for gain
- commodificationTransforming into sellable goods
- commercializationProfit-driven market introduction
- clickbaitSensationalized content for traffic
manipulative · advertising · consumerism · pay-to-win · microtransactions · influencer · sponsorship · upselling
Exploitative manufacturing workplace
- overworkToil to exhaustion
- underpaidGiven inadequate wages
- traffickingIllegal transport for profit
- pieceworkPay per unit produced
overtime · factory · indentured · outsourcing · subcontracting
Low-budget film theater
- B-movieLow-budget, low-quality film
- sleazeTawdry moral quality
- goreGraphic bloody violence
- cultFervent fringe group
shock · drive-in · low-budget · sexploitation · blaxploitation · splatter · trash · schlock
Extracting earth's resources
- drillingHole-making by rotation
- frackingExtracting gas via pressure
- deforestationLarge-scale woodland elimination
- overfishingUnsustainable marine harvest
extraction · depletion · strip-mining · clear-cutting · offshore · pipeline · quarrying · groundwater
trafficking
Illegal transport for profit
- prostitutionCommercial sexual services
- coercionPressured compliance through threats
- groomingSelf-care for appearance
pimping · abuse · objectification · pornography · solicitation · red-light · vice · predatory · vulnerable · smuggling
manipulation
Underhanded control of others
deception · coercion · intimidation · fraud · con · swindling · predatory · grooming · gaslighting · dependency
imperialism
Extending dominion over others
- colonizationForeign territorial takeover
- extractionAct of removing
- subjugationForcing into submission
empire · conquest · plunder · dispossession · native · indigenous · plantation · mercantilism · settler · scramble
monetization
Converting something into revenue
- profiteeringExploiting scarcity for gain
- commodificationTransforming into sellable goods
- commercializationProfit-driven market introduction
clickbait · manipulative · advertising · consumerism · pay-to-win · microtransactions · influencer · sponsorship · upselling · freemium
sweatshop
Exploitative manufacturing workplace
- overworkToil to exhaustion
- underpaidGiven inadequate wages
- traffickingIllegal transport for profit
piecework · overtime · factory · indentured · outsourcing · subcontracting
grindhouse
Low-budget film theater
cult · shock · drive-in · low-budget · sexploitation · blaxploitation · splatter · trash · schlock · sensationalism
mining
Extracting earth's resources
- drillingHole-making by rotation
- frackingExtracting gas via pressure
- deforestationLarge-scale woodland elimination
overfishing · extraction · depletion · strip-mining · clear-cutting · offshore · pipeline · quarrying · groundwater · poaching
- imperialismempire building, colonization, imperial expansion, British Empire, colonies
- social issuesinequality, racism, poverty, illiteracy, homelessness
- game strategybluffing, feinting, misdirection, positioning, counterattack
- Labor Issuesstrike, lockout, union, labor dispute, layoff
- misuseabuse, overuse, waste, squandering, neglect
- utilisationusage, use, application, deployment, consumption
exploitationempowerment
Gaining authority or confidence
mutual benefit · respect · care · protection · nurturing
exploitationmutual benefit
Gain for all involved
reciprocity · cooperation · collaboration · symbiosis · fair compensation
exploitationconservation
Preventing waste or loss
preservation · stewardship · sustainability · protection · restoration
- worker exploitationMistreating employees for profit
- commercial exploitationProfiting from a resource
- labor exploitationUnfair treatment of workers
- child exploitationHarmful use of minors
- exploitation filmSensational low-budget movie genre
- sexual exploitationAbusing someone for carnal gain
exploitation film, exploitation films, exploitative, exploitations