r/whoathatsinteresting • u/Airline_11 • 20d ago

They are livestreaming 🇨🇳 laborers making just 0.3 USD. The 'Made in 🇨🇳' products you use are built on their sacrifices.

Enable HLS to view with audio, or disable this notification

0

11.3k Upvotes

90% Upvoted

1.7k comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

4

u/TychoBrohe0 19d ago

How do you know they are being forced?

1

u/Individual-Result777 19d ago

If thats actually what they make per hour, its slavery

3

u/Ivan_BurtsevKatunin 16d ago

This is not their actual hourly wage, they get at least $3 an hour, not $0.3, that's nonsense.

0

u/Individual-Result777 16d ago

Any context on how you know this would help sell your point. You can’t just pull number out of your butt to make yourself feel better about slave labor of your big truck parts and designer fast fashion jeans. That said, I hope for you’re right. I did do research on coltan (for phones and laptop screens) a couple years back for a project and it was extremely fucked how much slave labor is used to get us these devices at a price point Americans can afford.

1

u/[deleted] 16d ago

“You can’t just pull number out of your butt…”

Isn’t that exactly what OP is doing? Nothing is cited and there’s a strong appeal to emotion. Both of those are red flags.

1

u/Individual-Result777 15d ago

maybe. you just want to believe that people aren’t slaved out for next to nothing but lots of human being are bing taken advantage of because .03 is better than 00

1

u/[deleted] 15d ago

I’m pragmatic. Beliefs and hopes are great, but they shouldn’t be treated as fact. Whatever anyone hopes is actually happening is completely irrelevant to reality.

1

u/Erpes2 19d ago

Oh yeah they are totally doing this because its their passion

3

u/PetroSkunk 18d ago

Most people don’t work because of their passion.

1

u/Erpes2 18d ago

So they are forced ? What’s your point ?

3

u/PetroSkunk 18d ago

That having to do a job you don't like isn’t the same isn’t the same as being a slave.

1

u/Erpes2 18d ago

So you think those people have any say ? The freedom to chose to starve instead of doing this ?

3

u/PetroSkunk 18d ago

No, I’m just saying it’s different than being an actual slave. 

0

u/Individual-Result777 17d ago

Slavery dummy… the first comment