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Americans aren't the problem. People are. Every type of person, whether they be male or female, no matter their skin color, race, or the education and job they
by pcunite 9y ago
Americans aren't the problem. People are.
Every type of person, whether they be male or female, no matter their skin color, race, or the education and job they now hold are sadly capable of hurting their fellow human being.
Murder comes in various forms. Matthew 5:21-22
- emodendroket 9y agoIn principle I do not disagree. But if we are talking about reducing pollution not by improving processes but simply by moving production to a country where regulation is more lax then I think the headline is accurate.
- andai 9y agoIn this case it doesn't even come from hatred, but from ignorance. It's not in Samsung's self interest to give all its employees cancer, for example, for many reasons. But it happens as a result of ignorance.
- mark_edward 9y agoIt's not ignorance, I have a hard time believing Samsung doesn't know about occupational hazard and toxins. They know exactly what they're doing. It's negligence at best, at worst poisoning people for profit. edit: spelling
- pacaro 9y agoIndeed. I worked for a pharmaceutical company in 1989. The person I car pooled with worked in the "plant health" department. They had either weekly or fortnightly blood draws (memory fails) and any significant amount of nasty shit in their blood would prompt investigation at the least. When she disclosed her pregnancy to management, she was immediately moved out of lab work until she was no longer breastfeeding. So, it is possible to manage these kind of work environments safely, it's a deliberate choice to not care. Or a cultural decision that says that such things only matter for the highly paid PhDs in the lab, not for the replaceable blue collar workers.
- emodendroket 9y agoWell, it is in Samsung's interest to do that if the costs of preventing it are greater than the costs of allowing it to happen.
- ludston 9y ago> Americans aren't the problem. People are. I immediately feel resentment towards this style of nationalist defensiveness. Firstly, this is cognitively dissonant because Americans are people so you ought to say "Americans are not the only contributors to this problem". But more-so because this is a truism that will deflect attention to a rabbit-hole that is not so useful.