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You pretty much nailed it. Its only a whistleblower to outsides, its a mudslinger to insiders.
mudslinger to the people who are profiting from the bad behaviour that they want to protect for no reason other than greed? A more appropriate term than 'insiders' would be 'cunts'.
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> Why? Its not relavent to my argument Your argument is that my statement framing the current conflict in Palestine as "A people were ethnically cleansed from the lands they lived on for centuries and those people continue to be oppressed and subjugated till this day, not only denied to return back to the lands they were expelled from, but continue until now to be forcibly expelled from the small amounts they remain…
Which part do you think doesn't fit? I believe the example i gave does fit. I understand from your post that you disagree but i can't figure out what specificly about it makes you think it doesn't fit. What is the part that isn't fitting?
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If we can all agree that UN resolutions and international law should allowed to be implemented, that would be a path forward better than what's currently happening.
There is a very long list of what would be better than the current status. None of them can work until the Jews and Palestinians actually want to stop killing each other. They are currently stuck in a prisoners dilemma. Who knows, if you are an optimist, maybe the destruction of hamas will be through enough that a successor accepting of current boarders comes to power. This is the only way I can imagine things moving…
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Western companies which cared, went a bit bankrupt sadly. We have negative selection here.
Patagonia? Chick-Fil-A? I think when you go full B2B, you are destined to be a soulless corporate automaton.
If company cares about paying workers enough, your item would be more expensive, but you are still "noname" for the buyer on amazon. And now amazon would push your listing away, because it is expensive. Besides, the client will buy the cheapest option in a lot of cases.
There are exceptions though, when you more or less know what you wanna buy and from which exact company. But if you shopping for something like "massage gun" an have nooooo idea which ones are good or bad, sustanable or not - here you probably get something from the first search page with 5 star review and reasonable price. Not something from a company which cares about longevity of the product or about their workers.
And amazon workers are not living the happiest of their lives to begin with, so probably people would not shop their if the care about sustainability. People care about cheap prices and fast delivery though.
Chick-Fil-A has a lot of control about their operation. Sellers on Amazon have minimum control. It used to be that good price and good reviews would make your item easy to find, but now you also have to pay for it in more and more cases.
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The slavery and working conditions in China no longer really surprises me, what I do struggle to understand is that Western companies apparently DO NOT CARE. I can sort of accept, reluctantly, that the Chinese have a different way to thinking than I do and that I can't necessarily apply my moral code to China. What I cannot accept or understand is that the owners and managers of Western companies, who supposedly shar…
Nobody in power in industry and almost nobody from the consumer side cares about working conditions in any typical outsourcing country. Quite the opposite, "less regulation", "lower cost" and things like that are directly caused by ignoring worker rights and human rights (as well as a few other things). China is not alone in this, just more present in the HN-relevant IT/tech sector. But clothing in southeast asia, mi…
Government is also kinda "happy" in the short run. It is easier to hide the real inflation. Before I could clothe in EU produced stuff, and now I can only clothe in asia produced. But I still get the "same" thing as a consumer, even if my real salary lost some power.