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It takes about 1 second to find other companies being accused of using child labour (Dell, Microsoft, Tesla, Google, Samsung, Sony), in major newspapers and els
by Symbiote 6y ago
It takes about 1 second to find other companies being accused of using child labour (Dell, Microsoft, Tesla, Google, Samsung, Sony), in major newspapers and elsewhere. They all have statements on their websites saying they're trying to stop it.
A comparison of the effectiveness of each company's approach would be useful. Without it, you are just defending a company you're personally invested in.
- nxc18 6y agoHow many articles mention those companies actually doing anything about it? My concern here is that when literally everything is an outrage (including doing the right thing, but methodically and not instantaneously), there’s no actual incentive to do the right thing. What articles like this do is remove the incentive to actually try to be better by saying that nothing anyone does will ever be good enough. At least recognize when a group is putting the work in; otherwise why do it? This is ultimately a marketing expense for them and their shareholders. If you destroy the benefits of that marketing to generate link clicks, you also risk destroying the benefits that arise from that marketing. It’s kind of like all the hit pieces about nuclear that completely ignore the thousands of people killed by fossil fuels each year. Perfect is the enemy of good. And no, I’m not personally invested in it. I own no Apple stock. I do have an iPhone but I also have lots of gadgets and other consumer goods made with actual slave labor, conflict minerals, sweat shops, and much more serious labor violations; I’m sure you do, too.