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Re:I got hired at a Bangladesh sweatshop. Meet my 9-year-old... by buro9 on Saturday October 12, 2013 @04:17PM (#6540104)
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.
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Re:I got hired at a Bangladesh sweatshop. Meet my 9-year-old... by lifeisstillgood on Saturday October 12, 2013 @05:26PM (#6540404)
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)

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