• riodoro1@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    The clothes is the first thing you listed and that’s funny because they are a product of sweatshops exploiting people from the poorest parts of this planet consuming insane amounts of potable water to make and 40% of them are sent to landfills never ever being worn.

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      6 months ago

      If it’s not slave labor, ie if the people are there by choice, then that “sweatshop” is a job those people find preferable to all the other ways they can spend their days. In other words, a step up. I have no problem with sending my money overseas to people for whom it is more valuable, for whom it has more purchasing power.

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        6 months ago

        is a job those people find preferable to all the other ways they can spend their days

        Like dying of hunger. Do you think garbage collectors in our society chose this career path?