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If you look at Vietnam before capitalism and after. It's a big difference. But I don't think you care about this.
Why do you think children have to work in these countries? If not for companies like Nike, they would have nothing and no ability to feed their family because of the government in power.
You are the privileged one. Not understanding actual human suffering.
All systems contain human suffering. Capitalism allows for actual freedom.
You still haven't given me an example of a better system.
Capitalism is not why they are exposed to toxic chemicals as you say. It's the corruption...which won't be solved if we are using some other system.
I lived in Vietnam for a couple of years, very recently. I could drive around with no license and pay police officers some cash if I got caught. Sometimes they would shake people down when they were low on money, especially around Chinese new year. This was also in a big city.
I also wonder what your alternative would be? Your post reads like you are in the antiwork subreddit. Most people have this romanticized view of communism and socialism that we will somehow have exactly what we have now, but you won't have to work (or you will be given a home by the government).
It's funny how many people fight so hard to have someone else pay their bills.
Now that their political party is in power, most support suppression of free speech, total government overreach like forced vaccinations, and especially suppression of their political enemies, and war. Everything they rallied against during the Bush era.
Hacking then also took a moderate amount of skill. Encryption was virtually non-existent and finding security holes was easy, especially when companies didn't patch anything.
It made me realize they were never hackers, just activists in hackers clothing. I lost all respect for the leaders of the hacker community from that era. Covid brought out the true colors of many.
People are forgetting that the high tax countries are enjoying the fruits of lower-tax countries labor.
Technology and drugs are the big ones. Big, evil companies create life-saving drugs and generics are created and sold for pennies to these countries.
With no incentive to create (ie: large profits), humans will definitely not advance.
Money is also freedom. The less we are able to keep, the less free we become (and more dependent on the government/state).
Non-left leaning journalists and politicians have been permabanned for much less and many, for no reason at all (as per the leaks).
It's disingenuous to suddenly care about 'free speech' from the same group that has been colluding with the government for the past 5+ years to silence all political opposition and anyone they didn't like.
You should also document all steps that got you to a certain point, so they can be quickly recreated.
I think it's ridiculous that open source developers give out their hard work willingly and then seem to think big companies are 'taking advantage' by not hiring them or funding the project.
It has nothing to do with ethics. Startups didn't steal anything. The developers gave it out willingly.
This sort of attitude has soured me to the entire open source community. They want to be able to give their work out for free, but then have a say in who uses it and how it's used, which is exactly the opposite of free and open.
Why so much attention to the far-right?
It seems racism is accepted in academia, when it affects a demographic you deem 'problematic'
None were marked as duplicates, so I dont think the employee tried to take credit for my work.
Im glad Hackerone decided to be transparent about this incident.
This issue will most likely never get fixed as I already let most of the companies in this article know it was a problem...and they just don't care.