Zone1 A little peek inside a cobalt mining operation

[Baron Von Murderpaws]

The real PROBLEM with this is, this guy thinks he's the first one to catch a company lying to the public about what HE thinks are "slave" workers.

1. This is a job. This is a physical job. Jobs are hard to come by for many people in other countries, so they grab them when they become available.
If they don't want to do the work, they aren't forced to, as there are plenty of workers who will travel miles to come to the job.

2. This isn't the USA. Different values, different standards, different ideals, different ways of living, different standards of work ethics and wages.

3. This kind of work has been going on for CENTURIES. Lumber, ore, diamonds, uranium, gold, silver, copper.........anything that comes from digging up the ground..........it's been going on like this for ages.

 

[Moonglow]

You never said anything horrible.

 

[occupied]

The problem just about everywhere is that the people who live on top of mineral or energy wealth almost never get any share of that wealth. In fact they are usually kept beaten down and impoverished by a corrupt local government in cahoots with the foreign mining companies.

 

[Baron Von Murderpaws]

You never said anything horrible.

Thats because there's nothing horrible about it.

It's just another self-appointed "journalist" using another countries standards by twisting them and distorting them to HIS propaganda and personal agenda.

 

[Baron Von Murderpaws]

The problem just about everywhere is that the people who live on top of mineral or energy wealth almost never get any share of that wealth. In fact they are usually kept beaten down and impoverished by a corrupt local government in cahoots with the foreign mining companies.

You just described Corporate America.
And pretty much corporate business all over the planet.

If this guy is SO freeking interested in "slave labor"...........why doesn't he expose the corruption and degredation of America's employment horrors???
Because it wouldn't gain him notariaty, and he wouldn't be able to distort it to his personal propaganda needs.