Re:I got hired at a Bangladesh sweatshop. Meet my 9-year-old...
by buro9 on Saturday October 12, 2013 @04:17PM
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It isn't nihilistic. It's just really important to understand how poverty feels, and how it is akin to a trauma that never ends, otherwise how can we in the West ever actually use what influence we have to change.
Re:I got hired at a Bangladesh sweatshop. Meet my 9-year-old...
by lifeisstillgood on Saturday October 12, 2013 @05:26PM
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I think we are agreeing - but it's frustrating to have to wait for technical solutions to problems we could solve with pure political will.
(For example I see the biofabrication of meat as a technical solution to the awful statistic that cows in Europe recieve a daily subsidy of two dollars while around 1 billion humans globally live on 1 dollar a day)
But accepting your argument, I cannot give in to nihilism. Take the children out of the factories, put them in school, build libraries, train teachers, and wait twenty years to see a vast difference.
If you are a military dictatorship that uses your twenty years to educate the country and drag it by the bootstraps into the global upwards pastures, you may retire with your ill gotten gains on a beach somewhere with our thanks. Get rich and change nothing I want you hunted down with dogs.