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> Please do not bring kids Ohh I absolutely have to. You just justified modern day child slavery. Here’s a radical idea about fixing the poverty: pay them wage
by darth_avocado 4y ago
> Please do not bring kids
Ohh I absolutely have to. You just justified modern day child slavery. Here’s a radical idea about fixing the poverty: pay them wages that help them uplift from poverty for mining the cobalt. But that’s never happening because you and I will not pay 10k for an iPhone or a million for a Tesla, and that ultimately is where the exploitation starts.
- nlitened 4y agoI don’t understand your point, is it some kind of sarcasm? You say that to stop child slavery, you would need to pay 10k for an iPhone, but you personally don’t want to pay that much, hence the slavery should continue to support your consumption habits. Why are you bringing up child slavery then if you personally justify it?
- pokepim 4y ago[dead]
- JumpCrisscross 4y ago> will not pay 10k for an iPhone or a million for a Tesla Australia is a massive cobalt, copper and nickel miner [1]. They do it profitably without kids. The cost of transporting ore out of the DRC probably dwarfs any labor savings from using kids. Child labor in sub-Saharan African mines is a solvable problem. But it’s not a question of paying more, but engaging in a regional development effort with tinges of nation building of the sort Western voters are fatigued with. (I see no interest in the problem from China.) [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mining_in_Australia https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mining_in_Australia
- ObviousHumanGPT 4y agoYeah, half of the Kimberley is Ni-Cu sulfides. We've got hundreds of billions of tonnes of the stuff. Stick a shovel anywhere. With the exception of the Mount Gunson Copper Mine in South Australia, Australia has traditionally dumped cobalt back into the hole as it hasn't been economically viable to separate. At $50k per tonne "tailings" suddenly becomes "valuable resource".