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It is not crazy to want your money to go to companies that treat their employees humanely. This article literally describes instances of slave labor: farmers r
by istjohn 12y ago
It is not crazy to want your money to go to companies that treat their employees humanely. This article literally describes instances of slave labor: farmers receiving just barely the necessities of survival and forcefully detained in work camps where food is witheld from anyone who chooses to work. To argue that the best solution is to create a more perfect market is bullshit. These practices are wrong, immoral, criminal and need to be forcefully stopped by the Mexican government. And when the government is ineffective, American consumers need to demand that companies actively ensure that they are not part of the problem.
These people go hungry day to day, and your solution is Yelp for Mexican farms? These people don't have internet connected devices, and if they did they wouldn't have internet. They don't have running water! The article discusses the uselessness of the courts for redressing these problems. A Mexican ACLU is a non-starter when Mexico's courts are disfunctional.
Strange article for a Libertarian crowd? Because Libertarians like to pretend everything in the world is rainbows and butterflies? Bullshit. This article is entirely descriptive. Nowhere does it prescribe any particular solution. That is left as an exercise for the reader. Unless being Libertarian means you don't give a rat's ass about human suffering, there is no reason Libertarians wouldn't be disheartened by this story.