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SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

To be fair to China, our top EV maker (Tesla) claimed that COVID wasn’t real and didn’t want to shut down operations and Musk claimed he liked China more because of their propensity to lock the workers in the factory due to COVID restrictions.

The people who run US companies will absolutely used forced labor if they can get away with it.

I’m not trying to paint China as some glowing bastion of freedom (it’s far from it, obviously) but it’s weird to present this as though it’s a “China” problem and not a “capitalism” problem. Companies like Nestle won’t commit to removing forced labor from their chains of operation, hiding behind “it’s too hard to find it all!”

reuters.com/…/hershey-nestle-cargill-win-dismissa…

The lawsuit being dismissed is evidence the US government also doesn’t care about forced labor.

Every major world power is some kind of dogshit, essentially.

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