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daserlkonig t1_ix455h7 wrote

What are we going to do? I understand the FIFA situation, but are we going to ignore that our technology, clothing, and other products are made by the same people in other countries with similar situations. Slave labor is slave labor.

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ValyrianJedi t1_ix4gmae wrote

In a decent many of cases there unfortunately just isn't anything to do on practice...

I had to go to a cobalt mine for a finance firm I worked for 8ish years ago and it was one of the most disturbing experiences of my life. But looking in to it when I got home I probably had at least 4-5 things with materials that came from somewhere just like it, and there was absolutely zero alternative...

Half the time you can't even know. I do a decent bit of digging in to supply chains for a living, and someone whose singular job was working 60 hours a week to figure out exact resources origins would barely be able to... When you have company 1 with 10 suppliers for materials/parts and 3-4 backups for each, then each of those suppliers has 10 suppliers for materials/parts and 3-4 backups for each, then each of them uses 5 different wholesalers all with backups, then each of those wholesalers buy raw materials from dozens of different mines, you end up with a chain that is constantly moving and impossible to get to the root of because there genuinely isn't one.

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super__mirage t1_ix4ig9n wrote

It's cool you got to make a lot of money working for that finance firm though

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NatalieTatalie t1_ix4lyun wrote

You don't do anything. Throw your hands up, admit that you're 100% powerless in your life, and then be quiet and watch the game. Don't worry about what the rest of us are doing, just stay in your place.

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