Summary: "Economic relationships are voluntary and uncoerced contractual relationships that are typically mutually beneficial. Such relationships make exploitation a philosophically interesting concept and give exploitation complaints their distinctive moral bite."

"This engagement supports the attempt, in Chapter 7, to sketch what a non-exploitative, democratically emancipated economy might look like. The unifying thread throughout is the critique of capital as monetary title to alien purposiveness." Might be a neat thing to look at for my story.

For my story, I should look into different perspectives of why the system is upheld (though this book and others). Liberal, republican, socialist, etc.

Summary: recent critics of capatalism argue abt the economic inequality of it and "violating basic precepts of rational justification." This is connected to surplus extraction under capitalism. It's marketed as a system of freedom and equality, but remains neither of those things though the following points:

1.) Unjust Abuse of power. 2.)Exploitation is a dividend of servitude, specifically "having to respond to the extractive ends and dispositions of the powerful." Money for example 3.) Structural Domination is a useful and coherent notion. 4.) The Capitalist has global variety. Like Colonial Imperialism, and liberal imperialism (what's happening nowadays.

Summary: Capitalism is basically a more modern form of fuedalism, where "might makes right" and whatever the lord says goes. This was abolished in the 18th and 19th centuries and was replaced with contracts, and ownership more in the relationship to things, capital.