Comment on The rise of ‘Frankenstein’ laptops in New Delhi’s repair markets
jarfil@beehaw.org 6 days ago
Farooq Ahmed, an 18-year-old scrap dealer
Without proper safety measures, workers handle toxic materials such as lead, mercury, and cadmium daily. “I cough a lot,” Ahmed admits with a sheepish grin. “But what can I do? This work feeds my family.”
Food for today, death for tomorrow.
On one hand, it’s criminal what companies like Apple do to hinder repairability. On the other, these people are killing themselves pretty quickly; instead of in a landfill, all those heavy metals are going to end up in the air after they get cremated.
amino@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 days ago
they aren’t killing themselves, the system of exploitation is. please stop shifting the blame to some of the poorest people on earth who can choose between shitty jobs like this and starving
jarfil@beehaw.org 1 day ago
Alternatively: nobody can actually force anyone to do anything, as in moving their arms and body for them, everyone chooses whether to starve, work at a suicide job, or rebel. Shifting blame for someone’s actions, or inaction, to an abstract “system”, is an easy excuse to justify people’s inaction regarding said system.
amino@lemmy.blahaj.zone 18 hours ago
TIL starvation is a choice. you are disgusting
jarfil@beehaw.org 8 hours ago
Your words spit in the face of everyone who died in a hunger strike. Truly disgusting.