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[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

Governments, businesses, corporations and all of us just normalizing and accepting that the majority of everything we own or buy at affordable prices are all based on taking advantage of as many poor people as possible in our home countries and most of the time in third world developing nations where people are paid pennies for their work.

We complain about China, yet everyone buys everything from them. We look down on third world developing countries yet we base our economies on manufacturing a ton of stuff from them because they all hire people for as little as possible. In America, Canada and Europe, we have agricultural workers we ship in from poorer countries to harvest our crops because we don't want to pay higher prices for labour to the people that live in our countries .... we would rather pay poverty wages for imported labour that we don't want to stay in our country.

Everything we do, buy and pay for is all based on exploitation ... our entire economy the world over is based on it ... yet it is perfectly legal ... but if we are all so moral, enlightened and intelligent then it should be illegal.

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

Exploiting animals

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

killing animals

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

Removing AUX ports, forcing people to throw away their headphones, because you ALSO nowhere sell your overpriced USB DACs.

Climate Destruction

Stealing already existing nature land, forcing people out of it, and "taking care of it" and get carbon credits for it like what?

Mine Coal or Oil in 2024. Same with building nuclear plants.

We had a thing in Germany, where nuclear industries needed to pay for the disposal of nuclear waste. Instead of calculating real numbers, they should invest โ…’ or less of the actually needed money into trust funds. Like... what? Money doesnt grow just like that, it comes from exploiting workers, and "magically" they didnt need to pay that much. And of course that was too little so now the tax payers have to pay for these horrible companies.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

Individuals owning something you need many people to use, like a coffee shop, large tracks of land, or an apartment building.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Political parties and religions. All of them.

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