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  1. May 2019
    1. This American Life has retracted this story because we learned that many of Mike Daisey's experiences in China were fabricated

      The fact that someone could actually make these stories up for views is just morally wrong.

    1. he engineers that made our phones smaller and smarter

      But honestly is that a bad thing? I love that my phone is smarter than me because it tells me things I curious about and need to know on the spot.

    2. By 2014, 91 percent of all human beings owned a cellphone.

      In my opinion this is just sad because soooo many kids have phones that are just too young and I know they are in that 91%.

    3. Yours is probably within arm’s reach right now. Our phones are so ubiquitous, we tend to forget that they only arrived on the scene about twenty years ago.

      Not that I am happy with how our phones are made, but I am one of those people that ALWAYS have my phone right next to me and if I don't I actually get upset.

    4. It’s no wonder that we struggle and often fail to stop climate change and reduce the atmospheric carbon count.

      Of course we can do it, it's a matter of people stop being so greedy when it comes to money. These slaveholders are more worried about their own lives than those they are hurting and the future generations.

    5. Especially in countries where corruption is rife, slavers act with impunity after environmental devastation, luring and capturing the refugees, the destitute, and the dispossessed.

      The fact that people can really take advantage of other peoples losses is just horrific. When people in 3rd world countries go through disasters they have already lost literally everything the own, let alone being taken away and abused for the rest of their lives.

    6. But there’s no secret about the engine driving this vicious cycle. It is us—the consumer culture of the rich north.

      The game showed how this is true - if people stopped buying said products, then people would not be enslaved to make them. That is why the last part of the game showed the consumers.