- Jul 2018
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www.thisamericanlife.org www.thisamericanlife.org
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That would require someone at Apple and Dell and the other customers to care. Currently, no one in the ecosystem cares enough to even enforce that.
nobody cares as long as the work is getting done as quickly and quietly as possible
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She cleans the screens of iPhones by hand, in these huge racks.
when I think of factories I think of machines doing the work so it's crazy to think she does this every single day with thousands of phones a day
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And in all that time, until I saw those pictures, it was only then I realized, I had never thought, ever, in a dedicated way, about how they were made.
I feel like nobody really takes how they were made into consideration
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Good question. Anything else I can do for you?
it doesn't acknowledge the fact that it can't answer and tries to change the subject
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It was brilliant, but it had a cost.
incredible innovation but at what cost
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Slavery, one of the world’s largest greenhouse gas producers, is hidden from us.
this is never talked about so nobody knows
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Out of our sight, slaves numbering in the hundreds of thousands do the work that slaves have done for millennia: digging, cutting, and carrying.
we think of slavery as something that happened in the past but unfortunately in reality it is something that is constantly happening, producing the products that we constantly use
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Round and round it goes— our spending drives a criminal perpetual motion machine that eats people and nature like a cancer.
it is truly a never-ending cycle
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But all this normally happens far from any prying eyes. It’s a hidden world that keeps its secrets.
nobody wants to really learn about the dirty business behind where there favorite stuff comes from so keeping things a secret is a little easier when not everyone is begging to know the truth
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And pulling things from the earth can be a dirty business.
never realize how many of our favorite things are actually so harmful
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some ways they spring from the same root. Our consumer economy is driven at its most basic level by resource extraction, pulling things from the earth, an extraction that we never actually see
Nobody really thinks about how slavery and environmental destruction have similar beginnings and how so many aspects of them are related.
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Slaves are producing many of the things we buy, and in the process they are forced to destroy our shared environment, increase global warming, and wipe out protected species.
A powerful statement about how in reality our consuming needs and wants are one of the real reasons for the increase of global warming, destroyed shared environment and wiping out of our protected species.
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