Look you have a valid point and it would be helpful for your readers of your wall of text in an attention span limited forum to open with a link.

https://www.dol.gov/agencies/ilab/reports/child-labor/list-of-goods/supply-chains/lithium-ion-batteries

You are talking about cobalt. But really you are talking about inequity. The powerless will be exploited in one industry or the next until we solve for inequity. 20yrs ago this was diamonds.

Solve for income inequality globally and voila. Fight for cobalt inequity and the problem just moves.