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[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Obviously. I mean look around you. You think any of this would be possible if evil were more powerful? I’m talking the clothes, the lights, the shelter, the food, the relative safety, the infrastructure, the language, the libraries of entertainment and knowledge. How about the open source software we’re using right now to communicate, and the fantastic technology that’s running it?

It’s all evidence of the power of Good

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

The clothes is the first thing you listed and that’s funny because they are a product of sweatshops exploiting people from the poorest parts of this planet consuming insane amounts of potable water to make and 40% of them are sent to landfills never ever being worn.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 3 months ago (2 children)

If it’s not slave labor, ie if the people are there by choice, then that “sweatshop” is a job those people find preferable to all the other ways they can spend their days. In other words, a step up. I have no problem with sending my money overseas to people for whom it is more valuable, for whom it has more purchasing power.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

You are attempting to justify exploitation and it disgusts me.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

is a job those people find preferable to all the other ways they can spend their days

Like dying of hunger. Do you think garbage collectors in our society chose this career path?