[kiawe_fire]

As an American, it’s strange seeing this discussed so openly.

In the US, any notion of “protecting the culture” is considered taboo. Implying that outside influence would not be your peers, and using terms like “serfs in some content factory in some lawless backwater” would be considered downright racist.

Personally, I can see value in keeping a thriving industry locally (which, again, is almost taboo in the US). I wonder how this compares to countries like, say, Japan or South Korea, which have thriving entertainment sectors of their own. Do they also have protection laws to enable this, or are they able to maintain this organically?

[jtode]

I can see why people steeped in capitalist ideology, using phones built with child slavery, might not want to talk about the lawless backwaters where they do business. Discussing our own personal, sleek, pretty, touchscreen-having artifact of child slavery and how we all have one in our pockets would definitely make the people who own stock in the slave mine (edit: and that would be anyone with a retirement plan, more or less) uncomfortable.

People might start getting woke, who knows.

[kiawe_fire]

I get it, but that’s definitely a larger first world problem affecting the people of many countries, I presume including Canada.

You have plenty of people both willing and unwilling to face this issue everywhere.

And you might be surprised by the types of people who share your attitude. They aren’t all as woke as you might think.

[jtode]

I seem to recall your president talking about "shithole countries" and to be clear, I do not mean countries.

We have lawless backwaters right here in Manitoba. It's not a question of this or that geographical location, but of the willingness of capital to find the most lawless place it can find in which to operate, and the willingness of governments to be bought out of doing anything about it.

My countryman wants his entertainment cheap at any cost, and that's the entirety of the problem we've got right now. The most destructive weapon I've seen in the last forty years is price tags.

[jtode]

Just rereading this, and I have to say, that was the most vague and noncommittal version of "the left are the real fascists" that I ever read lol

Anyone who thinks there should be laws against child slavery, and that we should not do business with people who use child slavery, I'm going to agree with that person on that point. I have a lot of other things that I think we should prohibit people from doing business with as well, but let's start with child slavery, since we are all active users of it, right?