Word: exploitationers
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With the huge success of Apple’s iTunes, we’ve only begun to see the potential for capitalizing on legal Internet music downloads. Users sign up for the service and have access to millions of music files instantly. iTunes has proven to be a boon to...
When it’s that easy to play the initiative game, exploitation comes naturally. In the same PPIC report, it was noted that well-financed interest groups spent a record high of $140 million in the 1996 elections because no spending limits exist in initiative campaigns. While two out...
Skip it, and go instead for Kuper's far more interesting adaptation of Upton Sinclair's 1906 novel "The Jungle" (NBM; 48 pages; $16). When first published, its exposure of the Chicago meatpacking industry's outrageous conditions created a scandal that resulted in the passage of the Pure Food and...
I had arrived in a world that had long been ignored by most of the outside world, save when its exploitation proved profitable. Mexico has seen an odd combination of civilian rule and illiberal policy, of great growth and modernization and extreme poverty and remnants of an old system, which...
THE COMMERCIAL EXPLOITATION OF CRUDE oil has been among the most liberating technologies the world has ever known. When pumped though an internal combustion engine stuck in a metal box, refined oil has given freedom of movement to billions. Before the automobile, the life experiences of most of those who...