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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Same as exploitation, 2.

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Examples

  • They interviewed Madison -- and Madison talked to them gravely, quietly, a little self-deprecatingly, a little abashed at the thought of personal exploitage.

    The Miracle Man 1909

  • _They_ were compelled to regard exploitage as a cruel but eternally unavoidable condition of the progress of civilisation; for when they lived it was and it always had been a necessity of civilisation, and they could not justly be expected to anticipate such a fundamental revolution in the conditions of human existence as must necessarily precede the passage from exploitage to economic equity.

    Freeland A Social Anticipation Theodor Hertzka 1884

  • But in the economic domain a similar, nay, more difficult, heroism is required especially from the lowest and the most wretched, and must be required of such as long as society is based upon a foundation of exploitage, and

    Freeland A Social Anticipation Theodor Hertzka 1884

  • For in order that the exploitage of man by man might be put an end to, it was necessary that the amount of producible wealth should not merely exceed the consumption of the few wealthy persons, but should be sufficient to satisfy the higher human needs of all.

    Freeland A Social Anticipation Theodor Hertzka 1884

  • Freeland money was to be found wherever want had to be relieved and the disinherited and wretched to be aided against exploitage.

    Freeland A Social Anticipation Theodor Hertzka 1884

  • So long as the exploitage of man by man was considered a necessary and eternal institution, there existed no motive to prompt men to subject it to

    Freeland A Social Anticipation Theodor Hertzka 1884

  • But as soon as the productiveness of labour reaches the point at which it is sufficient to satisfy also the highest requirements of every worker, the exploitage of man by man not only ceases to be a necessity of civilisation, but becomes an obstacle to further progress by hindering men from making full use of the industrial capacity to which they have attained.

    Freeland A Social Anticipation Theodor Hertzka 1884

  • For, as under the domination of exploitage the masses have no right to more of what they produce than is necessary for their bare subsistence, demand is cramped by limitations which are quite independent of the possible amount of production.

    Freeland A Social Anticipation Theodor Hertzka 1884

  • With only this moderate degree of productiveness of labour, the exploitage of man by man was the only way by which it was possible to ensure to _individuals_ wealth and leisure, those fundamental essentials to higher culture.

    Freeland A Social Anticipation Theodor Hertzka 1884

  • In those cases which are grouped together under the heading of 'political corruption,' where isolated interests have succeeded in imposing their will upon the community, the shamelessness of the exploitage has exceeded all bounds.

    Freeland A Social Anticipation Theodor Hertzka 1884

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