> If cobalt never existed in DRC, what exactly would they be doing for work and subsistence? Is this horribly unsafe and in-humane form of work a step up from w

> If cobalt never existed in DRC, what exactly would they be doing for work and subsistence? Is this horribly unsafe and in-humane form of work a step up from whatever alternatives they have, or perhaps from nothing at all. Again I am not condoning it, I am just wondering Is just wondering the new just asking questions? Clearly they would be doing something else, perhaps what they did before the mine opened. I feel by framing it as either a step up from nothing at all or from something lesser, you've already condoned it.