Now we know why so many manufacturing jobs were sent to China. Uncontrolled pollution, with no EPA oversight, is the only way to make those businesses profitable.
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its a cycle... a new power comes up they care about growing... then later laws and regulations come up 5 to 10 years later. was the same in the u.s. when they went through 2nd industrial revolution... Also happened in japan when they boomed through the 70s and 80s. When the cons outweigh the pros on unregulated industrial actions (world pressure, fines outweigh the profits), new regulatory laws will pop up...
I don't even want to look. Personally I am boycottying China, obviously that's often times impossible to do since everywhere I buy clothes or sporting goods they seem to be made in China nowadays. And they do make good quality items. But to what cost ? This is sickening . It is still a barbarian country in many ways.
... and no liability risk. It is just sickening. Those poor wretches have no recourse. It is the outcome of a totalitarian government that cares nothing about its people.
Poor people are exploited, period. 18th century England (princess Diana's ancestors were some of the worst offenders) or 19th America, so with 20th and 21st century China. Who cares is a very good question. Images of suffering are a quick fix for the guilty wealthy, pop a few dollars or euros in the collection box. It was horror like this that started the anarchist socialist and marxist movements in 19th century europe: 'workers of the world unite', better conditions and pay, freedom from exploiting capitalist barons, bankers and politicians. We have never had it so good. There is always a price to pay:'take what you will, but pay, my son'. We have never had such media coverage (even though the state tries to control this). We are rich and informed. But lack any belief any more. We have bo real faith and see the world through a fictionalising lens. Nothing any longer exists. We are divorced from reality and live in a world of hypereality, where creatures created on a machine with fake emotions are fed to children. Our dreams must not be broken. We live in an illusion of our own creating. We sleepwalk through life. The horror of these pictures is our own doing, but we would never admit it. We are not complicit, but evil exists through people's inaction. We'll still keep buying all the cheap shit 'cause that's what we're brainwashed into doing.
This makes no sense. It's like a meth lab blowing up and people blaming the meth addicts because they consume the drug. If the meth lab didn't exist, the addicts would have no supply in the first place.