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>how the western tech community idolizes China Could you elaborate? Most of the people I know in tech are actually on the paranoid side.
by allthenews 8y ago
>how the western tech community idolizes China
Could you elaborate? Most of the people I know in tech are actually on the paranoid side.
- yardie 8y agoFor tech from Shenzen for example. You could order as much or as little you want at anytime and day of the week and pay the rock bottom price. Rarely is it asked, "How is this possible?" Factory labor? Prison labor? Environmental concerns? Those things are glossed over. We order a single prototype board, pay $10 including shipping, and are pleasantly surprised when it arrives in the mail. Ignoring the human and environmental impact of the material and chemicals that went into it.
- krageon 8y agoReally most of us ignore that for all tech, at any price. It has nothing to do with Shenzen or the chips they produce. For that matter, there are similar moral issues with most clothing you will buy and the effects of a lot of the food you are eating. The cosmetic products you use are almost certainly funding (or have funded) a company that perpetrates animal cruelty. The world is built with sadistic bricks. I don't think it is active malice that most people ignore them, I think they just cannot exist properly if they think about each and every one. So most people think about a few, if any. Maybe sometimes they eat a biological egg from a chicken that has twice the floor space of a regular chicken. Or they drink some fair trade coffee that was ostensibly not produced with modern slave labour.