| > I'm surprised to see so many top level comments defending Apple for knowingly using child labor. I don't know what it says about us, but it's nothing good. You're not alone, I think it's terrifying. What seems worse to me is that some in this thread are suggesting that child labor isn't so bad because: "I had a paper round as a kid". Capitalists have successfully alienated us from the production processes in the global south, and from each other. Indians, the Chinese, Bangladeshi and many others in the global south - have now been fully disinherited and re-'other-ed' in the modern era. It should be referred to by it's proper name: neo-colonialism/imperialism. I am worried that some have so much grandiosity from being told they're awesome at school (and that they are special and one of the only ones good enough to do it - when in reality today's capitalism privatizes and monopolizes knowledge in the form of trade secrets and patent, allowing capitalist firms to 'own' ideas and inventions), that they don't even realize when a job someone else does (because of their privileged higher up position in the capitalist hierarchy) is physically impossible (working 12-14 hour days [2]). [1] John Perkins, An Economic Hit Man Confesses and Calls to Action: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=btF6nKHo2i0 [2] Machines (2016): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SrW46sBXJYo (child laborer not even 15 seconds in) |