• SupraMario@lemmy.world
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    6 days ago

    Exporting our labor to another country with a lower COL is not the same as using actual slave labor of their own people. Let’s not try and equate the two please. One is shitty, the other is a massive humanitarian rights issue.

    • grue@lemmy.world
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      6 days ago

      I mean, we do the latter, too. That’s what prison labor is.

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      6 days ago

      American companies literally use the same Chinese slave labour. Example: workers jump off the roof of Apple’s Foxconn plant. Sorry, I guess Apple is technically an Irish company?