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Awareness of this kind of thing often influences consumer preferences, spending.

'Fairtrade' (fair wages for farmers in undeveloped countries), boycotting Primark (child labour), etc.

Speaking for myself, I don't have any real solutions, but I think it is an important part of our humanity to at least occasionally contemplate all the suffering that our society is built upon, because each of us has to have a line at which we become the ones who walk away from/fight for a better Omleas.

It's a technology company and a major one too, I'd say it's well in scope for HN.

It also concerns humans, of which we are all part of. Some have more empathy to suffering of fellow humans than others, that has always been the case. For most part, HN leans into more humanitarian part of the scale.

OP will find it hard to find sympathy here, or almost anywhere else apart from most primitive and easily manipulated corners of human society for that matter.

Most human-related topics are not allowed to be discussed on HN. It needs to have a technology or investment angle to be allowed.