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Bad title... What about people working in African mines where they work long hours performing heavy physical labor under dangerous conditions. Even risking thei
by toadi 15y ago
Bad title... What about people working in African mines where they work long hours performing heavy physical labor under dangerous conditions. Even risking their health. Just to survive and give food to their families.
There are dozens of these answers where this kind of 'slave' labor is still going on.
So stop tooting the horn of those hard working entrepreneurs (I'm one of them). And please try not to offend other people with these kinds of titles and articles.
- smiler 15y agoExactly. People who have to walk miles a day just for fresh water. They deserve our respect
- zackattack 15y agoLet's all give ourselves a pat on the back for respecting those people.
- toadi 15y agoSmurk reply just to shrug off the fact you are only looking to your own bellybutton.
- zackattack 15y agoYou don't know me at all; how can you make that claim? I don't think that's at all true about me. I spend a lot of effort involved in improving the emotional welfare of other people. Moreover, I think it's ridiculous to commend and "respect" villagers for having to endure unnecessary hardships; it's as if the commender attains a stance of moral superiority for valuing "what really matters". It's not clear to me that: 1) Living rurally is actually net worse for a human being 2) If living rurally is indeed net worse for a human being, that commending and respecting them is a good thing - perhaps such a situation should be held in contempt in order to promote a more radical advance in technology 3) I think effort and willpower deserve respect -- merely having to endure hardship, while unfortunate, is not necessarily worthy of my respect. P.S. As a friendly FYI, "Smurk" is not a word.
- toadi 15y agoSmurk reply just to shrug off the fact you are only looking to your own bellybutton.
- hermannj314 15y agoWhen I saw the title, this (or something like it) is what I thought the article was going to be about.
- nowarninglabel 15y agoIf you are interested in real hard-working entrepreneurs who are often trying to overcome harsh conditions, check out http://www.kiva.org/lend http://www.kiva.org/lend It's the way I feel I can respect the hard work of these people while also helping to enable a better life.