Socialists say capitalism is exploitation because you have to work or starve.
But here’s the question they rarely answer clearly: What’s the alternative to working to sustain yourself that doesn’t involve exploiting someone else?
If you remove the requirement that you earn your living, then someone else must be required to produce it for you, and once that production is no longer voluntary exchange but compulsory provision, you haven’t eliminated exploitation. You’ve just reassigned it.
Nature imposes the need to work. Markets simply allow you to choose how and with whom.
The only system that avoids exploitation is one where no one is forced to serve another and every exchange is voluntary.
If there’s a different model that meets material needs without requiring production or coercion, it needs to be explained, not asserted.