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What do you honestly think happens to these labourers, children and adults, and their communities if cobalt mining is stopped where they live because of lack of
by aaron695 6y ago
What do you honestly think happens to these labourers, children and adults, and their communities if cobalt mining is stopped where they live because of lack of demand?
Can you articulate how their lives get better?
- jacobwilliamroy 6y agoThe only thing worse than being exploited by foreign capitalists, is not being exploited by foreign capitalists
- bilbo0s 6y agoDepends. Are those foreign capitalists Rwandan warlords?
- jacobwilliamroy 6y agoNo. The rwandan warlords are also being exploited by foreign capitalists.
- hwillis 6y agoPaul Kagame is certainly a piece of shit but he is definitely not a warlord
- toiletfuneral 6y agoyeah you can start with reparations for centuries of stolen wealth through colonialism but thats not really a market solution so I imagine its off the table.
- hammock 6y agoI'm sure they enter and exit the mining camps whenever they like at their own free will. Without this job opportunity, they may be more destitute than before. I felt the same way when Epstein got arrested. What happened to those poor girls he employed on his private island? /S
- imtringued 6y agoChildren don't have to work so they have time to go to school. After school they can get a better job than artisanal cobalt mining. It's not like artisanal cobalt mining is an industry that needs to be protected. Commercial scale cobalt mining also exists and is far more effective at extracting cobalt and if you have an education it's far easier to get a job at a real cobalt mining company.