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Sorry to break it to you, but computing is totally related to colonialism. Where do you think the materials that go into a modern computer come from? It'd be
by jefurii 5mo ago
Sorry to break it to you, but computing is totally related to colonialism. Where do you think the materials that go into a modern computer come from? It'd be nice if all that was mined in the good ol' U.S. of A but it's not, and that's where we get connected to colonialism. Not to mention labor.
- myrmidon 5mo agoWhat do you mean by colonialism? If industrial production/mining in lower wage countries is "colonialism" to you, then I strongly disagree, and so would most dictionaries. Colonialism, to me, implies exerting direct political control over a territory (without allowing it democratic participation) and ressource/value extraction against the will of the local population. Assembling phones in China/buying silicone in Brasil does neither.
- xantronix 5mo agohttps://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2023/02/01/1152893248/red-cobalt-congo-drc-mining-siddharth-kara https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2023/02/01/1152893... If that's not colonialism, I don't know what is.
- myrmidon 5mo agoColonialism in Congo would be controlling the local government, administrating/allocating mining workers and extracting raw material against the will of the local population. "Buying stuff from poor countries" is not colonialism.