Brit Marling on Harvey Weinstein and the Economics of Consent

What about her comments on the inherent power that exists in the hands of the gatekeepers of wealth - the Harvey Weinsteins of the world who have the power to create and destroy entire careers? He uses this economic power to coerce and sexually dominate women, undermining consent. This is not possible without imbalanced power dynamics made possible, in part, by capitalism. He is one of the ugly heads of a media industry that, in her words, "functioned inside a soft and sometimes literal trafficking or prostitution of young women".

Employment in every industry is a power ritual with mostly men at the helm and women often lacking the power needed to defend against various types of economic coercion. That is the subject of this article, and yet you ignore this entirely - sidestepping into a defense of capitalism as faultless.

So as long as you are taken care in our economic system, the only bother is someone challenging your comfort by declaring the imbalance of power is hurting others?

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