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You can build all the vanity projects you like when you're rich with petro-dollars, and pay Asian workers less than $10 per day. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
by DrBazza 3y ago
You can build all the vanity projects you like when you're rich with petro-dollars, and pay Asian workers less than $10 per day.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burj_Khalifa#Labour https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burj_Khalifa#Labour
- geocar 3y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penal_labor_in_the_United_States https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penal_labor_in_the_United_Stat... In 2021, inmates in federal prisons earned between $0.23 to $1.15 per hour.
- zaroth 3y agoWell, yes, because they are literal criminal prisoners, and exempt from the 13th amendment. The workers in SA aren’t criminals being jailed for some crime.
- geocar 3y agohttps://constitutioncenter.org/blog/constitution-check-do-individual-rights-stop-at-the-u-s-border https://constitutioncenter.org/blog/constitution-check-do-in... The US believes the constitution ends at its borders and people; This is what the law is in SA. I can't say I like it either, but I think jailing human beings and enslaving them to the benefit of others is simply not Good. If you can agree then maybe we can work together to fix it in the US in a lifetime or two, but there's frankly little we can do about SA if we can't show the world what being Good looks like in America.
- woodruffw 3y agoMorality isn’t a game of brinkmanship. It’s incumbent upon each country to improve itself, without resorting to their peers’ moral failures as a cheap response to observations of their own failures.
- zaphirplane 3y agoWhat’s the value of that statement, do you dream that people working in retail are sharing the wealth with Hermes