Competition and exploitation are subtly different. e.g. the nutrition facts and ingredients list on food in the USA is a big win, and I wish we pushed it even harder like Europe has. I wish makeup had to list its ingredients too. If you have any dietary restrictions, at a restaurant you have to put faith in a bunch of overworked teenagers, with boxed food you have a rough idea what's actually in it.
Agreed. This may be a consequence of the environment we've created, where corporations are allowed to behave like humans and compete with each other. In their competition, they end up exploiting us. We are a resource to them, after all, and any competition exploits some form of resource.