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    Blood Batteries - Cobalt And The Congo
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    1. rbeg2201 10 May 2019
      The country’s economy is completely dependent on mining. Many poor families are completely dependent on their children working the mines. That $9/day is hard for a child to reject

      its weird how people are able to exploit these people legally, and if not legally than how have people not made an effort to stop them?

      k-question c-social-cost c-cobalt
    2. rbeg2201 10 May 2019
      Walt describes how the multibillion-dollar industry, that has made some people outside Africa really really rich, is not known to workers like Lukasa. He just sells his haul to Chinese traders who have seen their profits increase 400% over the last two years.

      I wonder if the people at the top of the company even know that this is going on with there "employees"

      c-social-cost c-cobalt k-question
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