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and the people that grow your coffee beans? How long do they live for? There is a tension between believing that a rising tide will lift all boats (eventually,
by llamataboot 10y ago
and the people that grow your coffee beans? How long do they live for? There is a tension between believing that a rising tide will lift all boats (eventually, someday) and that part of the prosperity of much of the West is directly built upon the back of a system that disenfranchises most of the developing world -- depending upon it for cheap and disposable labor, waste dumping sites, etc.
- Swizec 10y agoThe people who grow my coffee beans also live much better than they used to. We're enjoying a before unseen period of peace and prosperity. Globally. Watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jbkSRLYSojo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jbkSRLYSojo Over the past 200 years, the difference between 1st world and 3rd world has all but vanished. We still have a ways to go, but no utopia is perfect. Even in the movies.
- llamataboot 10y agoI take your point, and it is one interpretation. There is another interpretation as well. Here, I'll trade you videos. From a now-ethereum venture capitalist, so not just a hippie dippie leftist: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EkQCy-UrLYw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EkQCy-UrLYw it's short, ten minutes