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Re:Amazon workers under pressure to up their AI usage are ma... by breppp on Friday May 15, 2026 @01:04PM (#48151085)
The worse example I know is the time the Belgians forced the Congolese to harvest more rubber by cutting their hands if they haven't reached the correct quota, ensuing a cross-tribe hands trading economy
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Re:Amazon workers under pressure to up their AI usage are ma... by wayeq on Friday May 15, 2026 @02:13PM (#48151888)
> cross-tribe hands trading

sounds like they had some cross cutting concerns

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Re:Amazon workers under pressure to up their AI usage are ma... by NicoJuicy on Friday May 15, 2026 @07:00PM (#48155034)
Belgians had nothing to do with that, nor the then governement

The king had a side biz

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Re:Amazon workers under pressure to up their AI usage are ma... by breppp on Friday May 15, 2026 @07:14PM (#48155156)
Similar to the British in India, it was first controlled by some kind of company that benefitted the host country by extracting resources, and later on the host country took control. Belgium took control of Congo in 1908
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Re:Amazon workers under pressure to up their AI usage are ma... by NicoJuicy on Monday May 18, 2026 @07:38PM (#48187388)
It was literally the king that wanted it as personal venture. Belgium took over because he was very/too bad ( you're right that the governement was involved, I stand corrected).

Healthcare and infrastructure was then build too, but the relation was already scarred and well, it's not easy to reset everything.

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