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    It is not the case that Matt Zwolinski argues that exploitation charges conflate making someone worse off with failing to make them as well off as possible.

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    • 1.Power imbalances can make 'acceptance' of unfavorable terms non-voluntary, making failure to offer better terms a form of wrongful coercion.
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    • 2.When one party deliberately withholds available benefits knowing the other has limited alternatives, this instrumental use seems exploitative regardless of baseline harm.
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    • 3.The distinction collapses in cases where one party's desperation is deliberately manufactured or predictably exacerbated by the other's actions.
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    • 1.Exploitation requires a moral duty to maximize another's welfare, but duties typically require preventing harm, not ensuring optimal outcomes.
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    • 2.Conflating these distinctions enables claims that mutually beneficial exchanges are exploitative merely because parties could theoretically do better.
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    • 3.Distinguishing harm from suboptimal benefit clarifies when transactions are genuinely coercive versus simply unequal in distribution.
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