Supporting slavery has become insanely easy these days. All you have to do is press a few buttons to order something on Amazon.

It's insane how far technology has come ...

You can just ask Alexa to place the order.
Not even pressing a button required.

The best thing is I can order stuff on my china plastic smartphone further supporting child abuse!!!

Another form of slavery is being related to my sister. For someone so small, she is practically the princess of the house and I'm the slave lol.

@Andi Priceless!

@Michelle ah yeah, I have already heard about it in the discord channel :P

There is a guy from a dutch consumer program who called the police because he wanted to turn himself in because he supported child labor by buying a certain product.
Will look if there is a subtitled video online.

Not a video but a wikipedia article
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

We are all slaves to our sins though 🤔

@Codex404 it may be just me, but that doesn't make sense, the chocolate you linked is against child labour and cares about fairtrade etc, how would somebody buying that, support child labour?

@JoshBent The creation of Tony's followed after his court case, because through the legal process against himself he found out that even chocolate labeled as "fair trade" was failing to protect suppliers adequately at the time.

Tony's itself is a bit like Fairphone, in that it's a company which constantly tries to push the boundary on what is considered "fair trade", and does so by acknowledging shortcomings of the industry transparently, instead of hiding complications behind marketing.

Problem is that especially for clothing, electronics, cocoa and coffee (four things I kind of like consuming) it's very hard to trace the origins of everything.

For a continuous supply of perfect espressos you need to source beans from dozens of farms in generally unstable areas. Tin and gold markets for electronics are traceable, but cobalt -- yup, that's only mined by a dubiously paid workforce of young men and children in Congo, supplying everyone from Apple to Tesla.

@JoshBent So I think it's more important to continuously and transparently report on how your company is moving forward, even when it's enabling child labor.

It's better to say: "Yup, these parts of our product are not perfect. The whole industry is a mess, but we're trying", instead of slapping some fairtrade certificate brand on it and calling it a day.

There was actually a problem where the whole industry started avoiding DRC & Rwanda because of fair trade policies, which lead to further impoverishment and sustained conflict in the area. That's a major ethical question: Drop child labor from the supply chain and let the kids starve instead, or keep the kids working in that mine and try to change the system "from within"?