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Ditch every piece of technology that's got a foundation in exploitation and human suffering? Challenge Accepted.


So you're going to basically have to resign from your job and probably stop using every piece of tech you currently do.

I know this sounds overly snarky, but it's true. Those are the options. Either get out of tech on "principal", or realize that would be cutting off your nose to spite your face, and use these devices to help change the way of things.


You're really blithely willing to label avoiding manufactured products that where constructed on the back of what equates to slave labor as "cutting off your nose to spite your face"?

Simply put, until market pressures are brought to bear on companies like Apple to clean up their act on the manufacturing and sourcing side of the house nothing is going to change, regardless of what you do with your ipad.


The point is that nearly all the modern computing technology you're using is using what you call "slave labor" at some point in the supply chain. You name-drop Apple, and the article name-drops Microsoft, but its also Intel, IBM, Samsung, Sony, Acer, Asus, MSI, EVGA, and a myriad of other high-profile tech companies using Foxconn. It'd be more instructive to make a list of companies that are not using them. And even then, whats to say that they're not using equally poor labor that just hasn't been publicized like Foxconn has?

In other words, in order to ditch every piece of technology that's got a foundation in human exploitation and suffering, you practically have to ditch technology altogether. That computer you were using to post was probably built in part on human exploitation.


Is there a market for this? I don't know of any "fair trade" electronics makers, that claim to produce good ethically.




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