How can capitalism lead to the exploitation of worker?

How Can Capitalism Lead To the Exploitation of Workers?
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How Can Capitalism Lead To the Exploitation of Workers?
After reading Moore's article, it gave me the motive to research about how capitalism leads to the exploitation of workers. Moore's article speaks about the exploitation of labor produced by marginalized groups of people, as well as the concept of value in a capitalist society. He questions what is valued in capitalist societies, how value represents wealth and time, and how this helps us understand the extent to which capitalism can exist in nature. Moore states that to value only some work means that most work is not valued at all. He says, "The simplification, rationalization, and homogenization of socio-ecological life that occurs through manifold commodity regimes from the assembly line to agro-monocultures works through a simultaneous process of exploitation (of paid labor) and appropriation (of unpaid work)" I believe in many ways this relates to my life. Many companies are looking to hire unpaid interns, which I believe is exploiting students and others who may not have the means or documentation to work in the U.S. For several instances, we either see paid labor being unfavorable to the workers or exploited unpaid labor being presented as beneficial for the worker, reinforcing Moore's beliefs.
Capitalism is an economic structure whereby a nation's trade and industry are controlled by the private sector rather than by the state. On the other hand, exploitation is a situation whereby owners in the private sector tend to take advantage of the workers unfairly. Notably, the first theory of exploitation was established by Karl Marx, who argued that workers in capitalist societies tend to undergo exploitation since they are forced to sell/offer their labor power for less than the value of the goods/products they produce with their lab. Marx also stated that workers are usually exploited by the capitalist's owners who use their privileged position to take advantage of the desperate. Moore has illustrated this by demonstrating how companies in the U.S. are taking advantage of desperate students and undocumented immigrants by enrolling them in unpaid internship programs. In this sense, the main aim of most companies and business owners in capitalist societies is to make profits at the expense of the welfare of their workers. Ca...