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>99% chance the people complaining about labor conditions are doing so on a made in China phone. Is there any other option? Don't stop people from complaining
by lkois 4y ago
>99% chance the people complaining about labor conditions are doing so on a made in China phone.
Is there any other option?
Don't stop people from complaining about lead in the water supply, just because they have nothing else to drink.
- chrischen 4y agoI'd be willing to bet that many who complain about "labor conditions" being too poor would still rather preserve a $200 discount on their phone instead. But having come from poverty, most people complaining about labor conditions on behalf of poor people have never experienced poverty themselves. It's possible for a capitalist society to have actors that willfully exploit people, but it is not the default that simply employing the poorest people equates to exploitation. People are just whiny that jobs are being lost to someone poorer.
- dont__panic 4y agoI think you can get a Fairphone in some parts of the world (Europe). But it's not a particularly viable option in the USA. This kind of reminds me of the plot of The Good Place [spoiler warning] -- in the show it's essentially impossible to get to Heaven because every decision you make has transitive dependencies on awful labor practices, abusive behaviors, and other unseemly things. So everyone ends up in Hell. I don't think using a smartphone built with evil labor practices is inherently evil. But buying one every year when you could use one for 5 years is probably a bit evil.