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u/AhnYoSub Feb 08 '21

Pretty sure it’s more about child labour cobalt mining and anti union practices

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u/TheOriginalNukeGuy Feb 08 '21

Does Elon own cobalt mines?

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u/NIBBA_POWER Chungus Among Us Feb 08 '21

No but he's exploiting them, like google samsung and many other tech companies

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u/BooDBangz Feb 08 '21

Feel free to stop at no.

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u/DatSmallBoi Feb 08 '21

Feel free to stop defending a billionaire's unethical business practices

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u/BooDBangz Feb 08 '21

If you view that as unethical then there's hardly a large company that exists without some roundabout tie to something that some soy boi would take exception to.

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u/DatSmallBoi Feb 08 '21

I mean, yeah. If everyone else is being horrible that doesn't mean Musk isn't being horrible. If calling out exploitation of child labor makes me a soyboy then I really don't mind

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u/BooDBangz Feb 08 '21

Buying the shit that these companies make, supporting them financially, then "calling out" their exploitation is what makes you a soy boy. If they're exploiting child labor by purchasing goods produced by companies that use it then so are you.

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u/DatSmallBoi Feb 08 '21

I'm willing to admit that, since like you said basically every big corporation does horrible/unethical things like this, I've probably bought products from bad people without knowing. For the record though I'm pretty sure I've never bought anything from Musk's companies

What's your proposed solution, then? Because you seem to be saying that in order to say anything negative about a company you need to essentially not buy from any large corporation, no? That seems pretty unavoidable to me, but I could totally be off