Difficult to explain the intricacies of a naturally evolved exploitative system. However it's easy to list examples, and if we begin with the statement "we are being exploited" then a single example is enough to prove it. What it doesn't do is tally every exploitation and every benefit and measure them against each other, but let's be real that's too much to expect from a reddit comment.

One well studied example is the US health insurance system. It used to be that a person could afford to visit a hospital out of pocket, now that's a ridiculous idea. Why? Because insurance built a nuanced system where they allowed healthcare to charge them enough, and thus allowed prices to rise, until the point that it's unaffordable unless one has insurance.

That's without mentioning issues with lobbying, legally forcing insurance to be bought, tying insurance to employment in order to further exploit workers. All of which compound the issue and are the tip of the iceberg. This is not an isolated incident, and each incident contributes to others creating a vast network of issues.

Another example is hoarding by the wealthy. Take the entire concept of a landlord. Somebody who wants to own property in order to rent it creates an artificial demand on the real estate market, one that is not fulfilled by work but is instead used as leverage against those who produce work. It inflates prices, but creates less stability than a fully decentralized market. Because one person going bankrupt loses five homes, instead of a ratio closer to 1:1, which would be more stable and less exploitative.

This issue has far reaching consequences.

A quick hit list of other examples that might resonate with you more:

Unsold cars being parked in mass in abandoned airports when newer models come out. In order to keep demand high, selling the vehicles at a discount would be counterproductive for the sale of new models, creating waste.

Engineered obsolescence, did you know we can make lightbulbs that last for over 100 years? We did this in the early 1900's, and it wasn't expensive. Why don't we? Because demand would have fallen to almost zero. Engineered obsolescence is in almost every non-disposable item we buy.

Education, a healthy system should want an educated population. It increases their capabilities in a direct way. We clearly don't, with half of our politicians advocating against an informed populace. Why? Many reasons, none of them good, but it boils down to us being exploited and the less we know about it the better.

Politics, does a two party system make sense? Why not implement ranked choice voting? If a two-party system is a natural occurrence then ranked choice will not harm it. But we don't have a choice, we have an illusion of choice. More exploitation.

Media, why are most major media corporations owned by the 1%? Is it just the correlation because obviously the rich are those who can afford to own large companies. Maybe it is, it would require experiments to prove otherwise, but it's pretty obvious that they use it for their own agendas. One part of that agenda is more exploitation.

Unions, anti-union? Anti-standing and working together? The whole benefit of society is the strengths of working together. It is antithetical to live within a system that suppresses our greatest benefit.

I could go for a while, but I hope this expresses where I'm coming from at least.