> You earn a billion selling wonderbras and buy one of these - OK.
> You build one of this on corruption money while ruling the richest country with the poorest people - not OK.
They are two forms of capitalist exploitation.
Your framing excuses the ‘business‘ kind, but the underlying exploitative mechanics are really no different.
Most global north firms benefit from labor in corporate-bribed and IMF-drained regimes in the global south. Global south citizens are basically locked up in their countries, to be ruthlessly exploited by global north capitalist firms. The capitalist class wins, the working class loses.
> You build one of this on corruption money while ruling the richest country with the poorest people - not OK.
They are two forms of capitalist exploitation.
Your framing excuses the ‘business‘ kind, but the underlying exploitative mechanics are really no different.
Most global north firms benefit from labor in corporate-bribed and IMF-drained regimes in the global south. Global south citizens are basically locked up in their countries, to be ruthlessly exploited by global north capitalist firms. The capitalist class wins, the working class loses.