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While slave labour is cheap, at scale a combine harvester is even cheaper.
But it's not just the raw production cost that matters. If you add a 200% levy, then ofcourse you risk tipping the edge back over to the black market.
Not because of the effects it has on the consumer, but because the effects it has on the producer.
It depends on where you are, but where I am - the UK - the producers are primarily enslaved. A fact that is rarely talked about.
Recently there was a big drug bust. The headlines all described how many dogs were freed - less than twenty. But deep in the articles behind euphemistic language you could read that one and a half thousand enslaved people were also freed.
I don't follow the tech press, who I'm sure discussed it a great length when it was released. And I'm not personally invested in the Mac, it's owned by my employer.
So I didn't notice the notch until my cursor disappeared while scrolling across the top of the screen.
I thought that there were too few quests, so I wanted to add some. I was struggling compile code or getting the server to run or something like that. When I asked for help in the forum, I got a rude response mocking my technical abilities. It was completely demoralising and I stopped trying to make more quests.
For years, that was my last experience with contributing to open source.