Re:Uber Paid Hackers to Delete Stolen Data on 57M People
by ForHackernews on Tuesday November 21, 2017 @06:42PM
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> brand new electronics
Why choose this example? Child labour is rife in many sectors, particularly textiles.
It's also rampant in electronics recycling[0]. So even if you never buy any new electronics, you're complicit when you dispose of your old electronics.
The point is you shouldn't allow an impossible quest for perfect ideological consistency and moral purity to prevent you from doing good on a imperfect, inconsistent scale.
Why choose this example? Child labour is rife in many sectors, particularly textiles.
It's also rampant in electronics recycling[0]. So even if you never buy any new electronics, you're complicit when you dispose of your old electronics.
The point is you shouldn't allow an impossible quest for perfect ideological consistency and moral purity to prevent you from doing good on a imperfect, inconsistent scale.
[0] http://pulitzercenter.org/reporting/india-rising-tide-e-wast...