exploiters
Those who manipulate
Exploiters are people or entities that take unfair advantage of others or extract value from resources.
The word carries negative connotations—exploiters profit from workers, manipulate loopholes, or drain natural resources without regard for consequences: The company was exposed as an exploiter of immigrant labor.
In gaming, exploiters are players who abuse bugs or glitches for advantage.
Those gaining from hardship
- speculatorsThose betting on markets
- monopolistsSole market controllers
- scalpersResell tickets above face value
- strikebreakersWorkers replacing union laborers
Those exploiting any advantage
- self-servingBenefiting oneself primarily
- mercenarySoldier fighting for pay
- vulturesLarge carrion-eating raptors
- sharksLarge predatory fish
parasites · leeches · freeloaders · gold-diggers · fortune-hunters · carpetbaggers · moochers
Crafty and calculating
- cunningSly, scheming cleverness
- calculatingColdly self-serving in strategy
- deceptiveCreating false impressions
- coerciveUsing pressure to compel
conniving · underhanded · unscrupulous · duplicitous · guileful · sly · crafty · insidious
Extending dominion over others
- colonizersThose who establish foreign control
- conquistadorsSpanish colonial soldiers
- plantationsLarge-scale farming operations
- subjugationForcing into submission
empire · colonization · domination · extraction · mercantilism · Leopold · encomienda
profiteers
Those gaining from hardship
- speculatorsThose betting on markets
- monopolistsSole market controllers
- scalpersResell tickets above face value
opportunists
Those exploiting any advantage
- self-servingBenefiting oneself primarily
- mercenarySoldier fighting for pay
- vulturesLarge carrion-eating raptors
sharks · parasites · leeches · freeloaders · gold-diggers · fortune-hunters · carpetbaggers · moochers
scheming
Crafty and calculating
- cunningSly, scheming cleverness
- calculatingColdly self-serving in strategy
- deceptiveCreating false impressions
coercive · conniving · underhanded · unscrupulous · duplicitous · guileful · sly · crafty · insidious · disingenuous
imperialism
Extending dominion over others
- colonizersThose who establish foreign control
- conquistadorsSpanish colonial soldiers
- plantationsLarge-scale farming operations
subjugation · empire · colonization · domination · extraction · mercantilism · Leopold · encomienda
tyrant
Cruel, absolute ruler
- dictatorRuler with total control
- oppressorOne who dominates cruelly
- authoritarianFavoring absolute control
despot · autocrat · overlord · abuser · bully · taskmaster · strongman · warlord · oligarch · plutocrat
- manipulatorsmanipulators, brainwashers, gaslighters, controllers, puppeteers
- raidersraiders, marauders, pillagers, plunderers, looters
- oppressorstyrants, despots, dictators, autocrats, authoritarians
- predatorspredators, hunters, lions, falcon, fox
- tough guystough guys, tough guy, thug, thugs, enforcer
- troublemakerstroublemaker, rascals, delinquents, imps, brats
exploitersbenefactors
Givers of aid
protectors · nurturers · guardians · philanthropists · altruists
exploitersgivers
Those who donate
providers · victims · patrons · laborers · benefactors
exploitersliberators
Those who free captives
empowerers · advocates · allies · reformers · abolitionists