Reason 8001 not to manufacture in china
this post was submitted on 25 Feb 2024
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Not "workers". Slaves. This is called slavery.
Not "workers", anonymous sources exclusive to Western journalists with information about the State Department's rogues gallery. I'd be more credulous if presented with the Nayirah testimony again without any changes.
Vietnam for instance is starting to develop its industry to Reuters has suddenly discovered Uyghur slavery there too from anonymous sources with zero evidence.
I can only chuckle at this kind of thing genuinely alarming internet sophists. You pride yourselves on being born yesterday.
Honestly yes. It sounds like the American South 150 years ago
China does this in other countries. There was a story of a Chinese funded factory with workers fleeing obvious security. And when I say workers I mean like 50+ people just scrambling into the street pursued by maybe twelve guys.
Fuck China and fuck you tankies who pollute lemmy with your bullshit
It actually kind of makes me mad when people claim that the US is somehow this terrible country. Its very much not perfect but at least I know I can get a job without discrimination.
There was a article a while back about discrimination at Ticktok. Apparently one of the execs was told that she needed to be meek and quiet.
We have slave labor too you know, it's our prisoners.
True...but at least in that case, although sadly not all of them, some have clearly have earn it by doing some terrible actions.
I've never heard anything this bad
I wonder if they'll turn up here. Probably too busy posting a hundred posts about the only conflict they pretend to care about because it allows them to win political arguments.
or talk about how Tiananmen Square was actually a US operation to overthrow the government so running people over with tanks was okay or something ridiculous.
That kid who posts Chinese propaganda everywhere literally says this.
yogthos?
Fuck now i feel guilty for buying chines tech . Tech includes right ? Or as apple said if we don't buy anything from them will that make their situation worse or better ?
There is a lot of tech coming out of Taiwan which as a bit better conditions from my understanding.
I think their work culture is pretty unacceptable but it’s certainly better than what’s mentioned in this article
It's all but impossible currently to buy anything tech without at least some component being manufactured in China
It's kinda like chocolate and trying to buy chocolate not made from cocoa beans that were grown and harvested with slave labor. You can buy from brands that seek out increased ethical cocoa beans, but none of them are able to make chocolate from completely ethically sources
Yeah, it's quite difficult. There must be more political pressure from the international community as this problem can't be solved by consumers alone.
I'm afraid that all industries and supply chains are effected, from food to clothing, and from pharmacies to tech. I posted this documentary (95 min) some time ago, we all read about Apple's China issues during the pandemic, ... you'll easily find more across the web or here on Lemmy in the China community.
But hey, tHey'rE sTeAliNg oUr jObS literally with slave labor. Fuck them all factories and companies still sending production to China.