This is the sad truth. People today feel as if they can't go an hour without their self phone, when people are dying creating, and producing our phones that we use...

I like to have hope that slavery can be stopped, but seeing how much gets brushed under the table with huge, international businesses, my hopes are crushed. If there were to be a change and a stop to slavery, we'd need a large moral flip in the views of these producers.

This sounds a lot like a corrupt form of government. Comparable to my Latin America class I took, Latin American police forces turn a blind eye to violence because most of the time those sources of violence and gang members are a lot stronger then the government. This illegal quarrying and slavery shows how strong consumerism is.

This reminded me of something I learned in my geography class called "Geography of Latin America and the Caribbean", because in Brazil, oil is a huge market. There have been recent national parks that have been protecting the rainforests that the oil deposits sit on. However, there has been illegal mining and usage of those deposits in the so called "protected" areas...

How sad is this? I agree with @e_estes34 because it truly is a big business mentality, scamming their way into cheap labor.