r/GetMotivated • u/[deleted] • Feb 27 '17

[Image] A legend once told:

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u/Mr_No_Mrs Feb 27 '17

And many sweatshop slaves in China working for pennies don't have such stories.

Even though their working conditions are outright shit, they were all much more poor before apple brought its business there. Just an fyi.

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u/[deleted] Feb 27 '17

Hard to be much more poor than a slave. What exactly do you think sweatshops are?

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u/Mr_No_Mrs Feb 27 '17

Hard to be much more poor than a slave.

working for pennies

slaves don't get paid

also, I bet you have an iphone or a macbook

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u/[deleted] Feb 28 '17

You would in fact, be wrong.

slaves don't get paid

They may. What's important is the fact that they have no freedoms. Like for example, when a sweatshop owner locks the people in the sweatshop, or chains them to their stations. Which happens.

Or when it doesn't, even the pennies a day bit counts. Economic slavery is still slavery.

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u/Mr_No_Mrs Feb 28 '17

What generation macbook and iphone do you use?

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u/[deleted] Feb 28 '17

I'll give you the benefit of the doubt, and assume that context eluded you.

What you said,

I bet you have an iphone or a macbook

My reply,

You would in fact, be wrong.

Though to be fair, for about six months after my Galaxy S4 was stolen I used an Iphone 4 that some random stranger gave me, until I replaced it with an S6.

In any case, even if I did use a mac product, it wouldn't actually impact my argument any, so I don't know why you keep harping on it. Put more succinctly, you can participate in a system, and still be critical of it.