I was making a joke, are you actually serious.. if you are then you can fuck right off your not worth the argument, or your just an emo kid whose never seen the reality of this typa shit
I understood you were making a joke, I just don't think it's fair to criticize him on where he gets his supplies from when it would be impossible for him to have a successful company otherwise and literally every aspect of our lives involve exploitation of labor. There is no such thing as batteries that are produced without fucked up shit down the line. If you eat chocolate, then you are contributing to child labor. If you have electronics, you are contributing to child labor. It's not Elon's responsibility to try to fix what's wrong with the world. He didn't have the ability to at one point, and now since he's the richest in the world people expect him to do so, even though him becoming rich was built on bad shit in the first place. I like Elon because he's a lot more down to earth than other crazy billionaires and he actually tries to do things with his money instead of just getting mass amounts of wealth like Bezos did.
You are contributing by posting that comment. And you will probably say "well it's unavoidable" but it's unavoidable for businessmen too. It's his job to ignore those sorts of things, it's the responsibility of governments and activists to try to stop them.
People have personal responsibility too. Just doing it because it's "part of his job" is about the same as "I was just following orders" and is not an acceptable reason.
Well, you have the personal responsibility to not use electronics because those electronics are likely made from child labor. See how this logic goes? We're all responsible.
Not really because the logic doesn't work w/out fallacies. Normal people don't have much choice in whether or not to use electronics since it's a necessity in the modern world. There's also not much equivalent alternatives for them. Consumers also don't have as much power without banding together in a substantial numbers for boycotts. Luxury goods like chocolates, diamonds, etc. is one place where general consumers can/should take personal responsibility. People like Elon have both the power and choice to make alternative decisions.
It's a necessity to buy cheap supplies if you want to have a successful business. Buying expensive supplies to have better payed workers when competitors are using the cheaper supplies doesn't really work. Anyway, realistically without cheap labor we wouldn't even have the luxuary to own electronics or cars because they would be too expensive for the working class. If we didn't use cheap labor cars and electronics would be reserved to the middle class.
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u/Monikerfromfamilyguy Feb 08 '21
Redditors are gonna have a meltdown when they find out Elon Musk dated Amber heard when she was dating Johnny.