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    A purely structural account of exploitation—where unjust ... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→Wrongful exploitation requires both instrumentalization of vulnerability and domination

    A purely structural account of exploitation—where unjust benefit-extraction suffices for wrongfulness—makes domination and vulnerability conditions explanatorily redundant.

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    • 1.If unjust benefit-extraction fully constitutes exploitation's wrongfulness, domination and vulnerability add no explanatory force beyond structural imbalance.
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    • 2.Occam's Razor favors simpler accounts: a one-factor theory (extraction) explains cases better than theories requiring multiple independent conditions.
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    • 3.Domination and vulnerability are morally relevant only insofar as they enable or measure unjust extraction—making them derivative, not fundamental.
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    • 1.Identical extraction patterns differ morally depending on whether actors dominate or vulnerable others—showing structural factors carry independent normative weight.
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    • 2.Vulnerability explains *why* extraction becomes wrongful in some contexts but not others, preventing the account from collapsing exploitation into mere unfairness.
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    • 3.A purely structural account cannot distinguish exploitative oppression from fair market transactions with unequal outcomes—requiring vulnerability and power to differentiate.
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