Reply #44: I am trying to get at your exaggeration in at least implying that Monopoly Capitalism

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does not enslave.

You reduce the interaction between what is, to all practical purposes, an infinity of elements and their economic environment to 0. That is an exaggeration of whatever it is that you base your opinion on.

P.S. The great majority of speech IS figurative, some just more so than others, hence, "figure of speech".