Our phones, our computers, our clothes, our household goods.
This seems especially crazy when you think about it because of how huge the idea of being self-made is in this country.
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- Jul 2017
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www.thisamericanlife.org www.thisamericanlife.org
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I'm not allowed to say.
They've changed the answer- no matter how I phrased it, my iPhone 5SE would just repeat the answer to the first question.
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Experts believe that ten million people died
Isn't it interesting how few people know of this and yet everyone learns about the holocaust by age 16?
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seeking new livelihoods, only to find themselves enslaved.
I once read an article on women in Russia who seek to escape sexism and abusive families often end up enslaved in sex work or sold as brides in an effort to find new work and create a better life for themselves.
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rings
Diamonds are sourced in as poor conditions as tombstones, and yet realistically are one of the most common and non-unique stones to give to someone.
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Suddenly, the care taken to remember and mark the lives of loved ones took an ugly turn.
begs the question, 'is marking the death of one person worth anothers life?'
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The rice and beans they eat, the scrap stones they use to build a hut on the side of the quarry, the hammers and crowbars they need to do their work, all of it is provided by the boss and added to the family’s debt
Like indentured slaves in colonial US. Pay for the trip over seas and give them a home in exchange for years of slavery. At least in that case there were time limits already in place.
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you can’t afford to die in Germany.”
In the US some families have savings set up for funeral costs worth thousands of dollars.
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We think of Steve Jobs in his black turtleneck as the origin of our iPhones
Even then, Steve is credited with stealing the idea from his partner and going solo.
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