"What is worse, to murder a man, or to hire him?" --Brtecht. But really. In economic terms, exploitation is a group relation that holds between people as Traeger, bearers of class and other group positions. There may be exploitation on the individual level of the sort you mention here, but analysis of it, while perhaps ethically pointed, ius unlikely to be economically revealing.
If the question is, whether white workers can exploit black workers, well here's a Roemerian analysis. If Black workers were to withdraw from the situation where they interacted with white workers (bith otherwise everything else remained constant), would they be better off? Roemer would say, if so, they are exploited. If the question is whether white worker's racism is exploitatioon of black workers, we have to ask, what is racism? Does it involve just attitudes of distaste, or does it involve allocatioons of benefits and burdens across races? If the later, then perhaps whote worker racism could be, or involve, exploitation.
--jks
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>>Doug
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>i don't think anyone here doesn't believe that! what is at issue isn't
>that! what is at issue is whether you can say that white workers benefit
>from racism by calling that exploitation. does the woman who hires a
>housekeeper exploit that housekeeper? does the couple who buys all the
>meals preprepared and eat off disposable dishes exploit the people who make
>the disposable tableware and the food they eat? does the dot.com worker or
>lawyer exploit the physician's assistant who checks out his strep throat
>and prescribes antibiotics?
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