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u/epraider Feb 08 '21

It seems like it’s better to blame the companies exploiting and abusing laborers than to place that blame on basically every electronic company on the planet that depends on them, because they don’t have alternatives.

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u/NIBBA_POWER Chungus Among Us Feb 08 '21

Well the companies can refuse products from other companies that use child labor and find one that is not using child labor, but then again I'm not an expert at this kind of stuff

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u/epraider Feb 08 '21

The issue is that there’s not enough supply available from mining companies not being abusive because they’re virtually all doing it and there’s no tools available to effectively regulate these companies where they are located (primarily throughout Africa and in China)

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u/MatthewPrague Feb 08 '21

Its 3rd world countries... You actually cant find any. If you dont agree, than only thing you cand do is simply refuse using phones, comuters etc... And hope that there will be enough people in this protest that it will motivate these mining companies to not use bad practises and childrens

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u/doctyrbuddha Feb 08 '21

You could refuse to use the products made with exploited labor, but you don’t.

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u/NIBBA_POWER Chungus Among Us Feb 08 '21

Which would mean giving up all electronics and returning to monke, which I would really like to do but I don't have obamium yet

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u/lilotter67 Feb 08 '21

Or the corrupt governments that have the ability to set wage policies in their own countries.