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And yet there are at least some options of companies doing the right thing, or trying to do so. See Fairphone and Shiftphone for examples.

• Ididntdothis 7y ago
  Totally agree. But that comes at the expense of profit. Big public companies who claim they are there only to make money for shareholders won’t do that.
  • asdff 7y ago
    Which is sickening. We need some sort of heavy handed regulation that stipulates that labor up and down the supply chain of a given American company conforms to American labor protections. We also need this regulation to be backed by consequence which would directly harm the lives of those individuals who directly decide to eschew these regulations. I think we can stand to hold executives far more accountable for them deciding to commit human rights abuses via casual email or shareholder memo, some 3000 miles out of sight and out of mind from the crimes themselves. These sort of regulations would be very painful for the economy in the near term, but far less painful than continuing the status quo for those being abused.
    • Ididntdothis 7y ago
      “These sort of regulations would be very painful for the economy in the near term, “ I am not even sure about that. Companies would adapt very quickly. That’s what they are good at.
      • asdff 7y ago
        You wouldn't think that if you listened to what these neocons have been preaching as scripture for the past 50 years...