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Re:The human cost of the Kindle by wycs on Saturday June 09, 2018 @11:51PM (#17276381)
>What? these inhumane working conditions aren't appealing to any human.

This is your privilege talking. Billions of people find them far more appealing than a precarious life of backbreaking farm labor.

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Re:The human cost of the Kindle by xfer on Sunday June 10, 2018 @03:03AM (#17276973)
seems like your privilege talking; nobody is comparing to field farming here.
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Re:The human cost of the Kindle by FranzFerdiNaN on Sunday June 10, 2018 @04:35AM (#17277166)
Most of those people wouldn’t have gone to the city if they could have stayed on their farm. It’s capitalism forcing those people from their land, not some innate desire to be exploited in a factory.
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