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by someone7x 112 days ago
> 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.

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What is the something else? Starving? Looting and pillaging? Warring? Becoming software developers?