Your Daily Dose of Happy Facts

[P3nT4gR4m]

I'm actually going to pick a couple of products and dig a bit.

Do you guys have an equivalent of "Pound Shops"? maybe "Dollar Stores" or something similar? Reason I ask is because our ones are full of shit made by bangladeshi preschoolers who are were too ugly to get a foot on the child-prostitute career ladder.

[The Good Reverend Roger]

I'm actually going to pick a couple of products and dig a bit.

Do you guys have an equivalent of "Pound Shops"? maybe "Dollar Stores" or something similar? Reason I ask is because our ones are full of shit made by bangladeshi preschoolers who are were too ugly to get a foot on the child-prostitute career ladder.

We certainly do.

They're chain stores here.

Perhaps some new signage out front...

[Cain]

Cotton is a good bet.

Uzbekistan uses child slave labour (under the guise of "national cultural traditions"), and its cotton harvest goes pretty far.

[The Good Reverend Roger]

Cotton is a good bet.

Uzbekistan uses child slave labour (under the guise of "national cultural traditions"), and its cotton harvest goes pretty far.

That's some high-quality Doublespeak, that is.

[Cain]

Oh yes.

Given Uzbekistan has never existed historically, and it's leader is a Communist, the ironies just pile on top of each other.

Also, mines in central Africa are typically used by slave labour, or as close to as to not be able to tell the difference.  Blood diamonds are infamous, but colban and other precious minerals fall lower on the radar.

[LMNO]

Pretty much everything in the Apple Store is fair game.

[Cain]

"Sourced from 100% non-violent slave factories: there is no reason to beat someone just for being a slave".

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

Pretty much everything in the Apple Store is fair game.

I would avoid Apple, actually, because what's happened as a result of Apple's relative transparency is that a vast swathe of the population is under the impression that the conditions of Apple's manufacture are somehow unusual or worse than every other company, and that gives people who don't use Apple products an easy out.

[The Good Reverend Roger]

Pretty much everything in the Apple Store is fair game.

I would avoid Apple, actually, because what's happened as a result of Apple's relative transparency is that a vast swathe of the population is under the impression that the conditions of Apple's manufacture are somehow unusual or worse than every other company, and that gives people who don't use Apple products an easy out.

Yep.  If it's electonic, it's probably filthy.

Apple fessed up.  Doesn't mean everyone else is clean.

On the other hand, I am unimpressed with how Apple dealt with the problem.

[Cain]

"This product has not been tested on slaves: just made by them".

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

Pretty much everything in the Apple Store is fair game.

I would avoid Apple, actually, because what's happened as a result of Apple's relative transparency is that a vast swathe of the population is under the impression that the conditions of Apple's manufacture are somehow unusual or worse than every other company, and that gives people who don't use Apple products an easy out.

Yep.  If it's electonic, it's probably filthy.

Apple fessed up.  Doesn't mean everyone else is clean.

On the other hand, I am unimpressed with how Apple dealt with the problem.

Apple does the least possible; meanwhile, all the other electronics (and everything else) companies heave a sigh of relief that they don't have to do anything at all.

[The Good Reverend Roger]

Pretty much everything in the Apple Store is fair game.

I would avoid Apple, actually, because what's happened as a result of Apple's relative transparency is that a vast swathe of the population is under the impression that the conditions of Apple's manufacture are somehow unusual or worse than every other company, and that gives people who don't use Apple products an easy out.

Yep.  If it's electonic, it's probably filthy.

Apple fessed up.  Doesn't mean everyone else is clean.

On the other hand, I am unimpressed with how Apple dealt with the problem.

Apple does the least possible; meanwhile, all the other electronics (and everything else) companies heave a sigh of relief that they don't have to do anything at all.

Very, very true.

[LMNO]

Cain: great slogans!

[Cain]

Thanks.  I feel they could do with some fine-tuning, but you get the general idea: take an ethical campaign slogan, but use it in such a way that it does not make slavery itself seem like an ethical issue.

[tyrannosaurus vex]

"Now made with 15% less child labor"