But for all that, you have to go on believing in possibilities, believing that people want something better in life, looking for something outside of ugliness, vulgarity, cruelty and exploitation; something that has a meaning, that's got connection.
Mr. Tarantino and his celebrated love of the ladies of exploitation has something to do with what's happening on screens.
The new Ukrainian government has rather a lot on its plate, but ending the trade in emotional exploitation is something they should tackle sooner rather than later.
It grew out of research showing that community college students tend to come from backgrounds where work is not necessarily seen as an outgrowth of one's passions, but rather as drudgery or exploitation or something hard to come by.
"Child sexual exploitation is something inspectors now focus on much more closely under the arrangements for inspecting local authority child protection and looked-after children's services that came into effect a year ago," she said.
As questions continue to swirl about whether Thug's fashion choices signify progress or exploitation or something else entirely, the incident makes one thing clear: "We are totally confused and misinformed," says Paoletti, "and we're still acting like a bunch of four-year-olds".
Mike Vraney of Seattle-based exploitation film distributor Something Weird started collecting 16 and 8mm stag and early Golden Age films in the early 1990s and continued until just before his death in 2014, amassing a few hundred items, his wife Lisa Petrucci tells me.
As the class divide stretches ever wider and shows such as Struggle Street and Housos accumulate accusations of exploitation, maybe there's something to a televised social satire that's actually shot like an exploitation flick.
The exploitation of blacks was something he admitted he had "never got over".Nor had America got over it, despite the march from Selma, in which Mr Franklin led a posse of historians, and Brown v Board of Education, where he lent his scholarship to help prove that the Framers had not meant to impose segregation on the public schools.
This is a film about what gentrification means in real terms, and it reminded me of Laurence Fishburne's speech on this subject from John Singleton's 1991 movie Boyz N the Hood: that gentrification is a hostile act, an exploitation of communities, and something to be resisted.
It is no longer simply about exploitation and oppression, but something new.
