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> Sweatshops and slavery and cheap mass transportation of goods make our lifestyle possible. One of these things is not like the others! Cheap sea transport i
by iguy 7y ago
> Sweatshops and slavery and cheap mass transportation of goods make our lifestyle possible.
One of these things is not like the others!
Cheap sea transport is a triumph of engineering. Sweatshop is just a term for a factory which the speaker disdains. Usually implying that the peasants should stay on their fields in picturesque poverty, and not make their own life choices.
Slavery, on the other hand, is actually evil. Fortunately it's now confined to certain backward parts of the world which have very little to do with the modern economy. I mean how many things manufactured in Mauritania have you bought recently?
- bayesian_horse 7y agoMass transportation means you can profit from slavery or human rights abuses or whatever, while not seeing it because of the distance. Slavery is more common than you think, and especially because there are conditions equal to any definition of slavery, which are just not labeled that. There still is plenty of such slavery almost all around the world. Also, slavery is not the standard for exploitation. Subsistence wages alone may or may not be exploitative, but they don't constitute slavery. You need additional restrictions, for example on your movement, choice of work, human rights, etc