- May 2019
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This American Life has retracted the above story because we learned that many of Mike Daisey's experiences in China were fabricated.
I appreciate what Mike Daisey was trying to do. He was worried about the workers in China and decided to do something about it, he just did not go about it the right way. That being said, it is not right to lie or make up stories about a very serious topic. It's going to be doing the opposite of what Daisey most likely wanted, spread awareness. People are going to see that he made it up and then not listen to anything that he has to say on the topic.
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Our staff did weeks of fact checking to corroborate Daisey's findings
I appreciate that they went o great lengths to find out if Mike Daisey was telling the truth and if it really is as bad in China was he describes. They didn't hear him out and automatically believe him, they got the truth for themselves.
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Daisey sees some photos online from the inside of a factory that makes iPhones, starts to wonder about the people working there, and flies to China to meet them.
Interesting way to go about things. You would think that we would maybe do some more research on this situation rather than just seeing photos, "wonder about the people," and then just get up and fly to China.
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No one “won” the Second Congo War; it simply collapsed from exhaustion as resources and energy ran out.
Such a waste of resources and the fact that so many resources were used that they ran out is a little disturbing.
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By its end 5.4 million people were dead, a body count second only to the two world wars.
Wild. I have never heard of this and am shocked.
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life has become a scramble for survival in a population divided between those with guns and those without. This chaos is the perfect breeding ground for slavery.
Sad because people can't live their lives in their own country. Part of the population are slaves and are help at gunpoint to become one.
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“This is why I am here,” I thought, “I can’t live without my phone, and people here are dying because of it.”
almost all of us have some sort of dependency on our phone and are always reaching it. He's recognized that and decided to do something to help the people who were involved in making our "addiction."
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There’s always been a moral case for stopping slavery; now there’s an environmental reason too.
Gives people an extra push into making the world safe for others. Although I have to wonder why nothing is still being done to stop or help it.
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But all this normally happens far from any prying eyes. It’s a hidden world that keeps its secrets.
Many do not "investigate" when buying something. Even if something everyone has is said to be involved with something problematic or something like slavery, people will react to it, but won't do anything to change it because many people are so materialistic. An example of this is when it came to light that some department stores still use child labor. People reacted but many did nothing to help or decrease it.
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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.
Many people are very materialistic so it sucks to know that while this may improve with the increase of education about slavery and global warming, that many people will still contribute to it because people are so tied and attached to materialistic objects.
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these men were appalled when they saw footage from the quarries.
So these people are selling something where they don't even know where it's coming from or how it was produced. makes me wonder how these men reacted being told this and if it affected them in anyway.
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“See the little girl playing with the hammer?” asked a local investigator. “Along with the child, the size of the hammer grows, and that’s the only progress in her life.”
Hurt me reading this. This girl's childhood has been taken away from her. Not how someone should live their life.
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tombstone.
Very intense right off the bat and a bit overwhelming but that's the point. If it's this intense at the very beginning then we're in for a ride with this one.
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