I literally just watched a John Oliver thing about chocolate where he pointed out that label (and two others) don't even really check that they are, in fact, slave/child/cruelty free.
I have to wonder what the ratio is for us transferring our bad practices to other parts of the world, to the other parts of the world playing catch up to us in the terms of the industrial revolution which saw us practice many of these same things early on.
I think of the coal mine workers in the 1600s in England and later on in the Americas. They were horrible situations to endure and that's one *small example. Most of early life of those moving from the rural areas to the city was not kind either. Child labor was a big part of the equation along with slavery.
I'm sure there's also a large part of the western world just transferring their bad for the local environment processes to these places too. I just wonder what the ratio is.
I have to wonder what the ratio is for us transferring our bad practices to other parts of the world, to the other parts of the world playing catch up to us in the terms of the industrial revolution which saw us practice many of these same things early on.
Or the continuation of long-standing practices in these regions. Slavery, after all, long predates the Industrial Revolution. We're more responsible for encouraging the continuation than transferring the practice.
I’m sure there’s also a large part of the western world just transferring their bad for the local environment processes to these places too. I just wonder what the ratio is.
A lot of it is that we're willing to pay profitable prices for raw materials, which encourages dependence on primary sector activities (extraction, like agriculture and mining) which are labor intensive and very vulnerable to exploitation. A lot of these slave-labor type undertakings work in a pretty machinery-minimal way, since that's how the value of slave labor is maximized, rather than being advanced-but-polluting.
It's funny, though.
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