How is it possible to think about those Chinese factory workers and then think about your own life and take stuff like morality, economic justice, and your own merit seriously? It's like the idea of tbe worker who does 12 hour shifts 6 days a week in a soul crushing job requirements has to be swept under the rug in order for us to pretend we are smart and hard working and deserving.
I also think living in an industrialised society has effects on my values that other people don't care about. For example, how can people take pride in factory jobs where the conditions can easily be made out of kilter with our evolutionarily designed physical and mental needs? Only gamification and willful ignorance of the bigger picture can result in pride.
Because I'm alright jack (keep your hands off of my stack) Or to be biblical, I am not my brothers keeper
Levi Flores
>quoting the very first murderer in an attempt to justify your moral profligacy wew
Justin Gomez
This. They can an hero any time they like.
Evan Williams
The work you are referring to is seen as a path to upward mobility in China. They do not lament their lot. By and large, it beats being this guy.
Zachary Phillips
I think you're largely missing the point that no on in the West works so hard (except the victims of human trafficking perhaps, and some very eager immigrants) and it's all rather unfair regardless of how those guys feel about it (spoiler: they still think it's unfair and we're pampered babies born with silver spoons in our mouths and they'd be millionaires if they were in our shoes)
Austin Nguyen
You misunderstand. I don't even think my behavior needs justification. Let each look to his own
Isaiah Clark
Well yes...that's why everyone is freaking out about globalization. These people are willing to work far harder than we are and now we are paying the price
Gabriel Jenkins
>willing
It's their only option for survival. It isn't a choice.
>some people have more things than others >this automatically means injustice
I didn't teleport to the 40s and make them pick communism.
Andrew Hill
They didn't build a time machine so they could go back to the 40s and pick communism either, shithead.
Benjamin Sanders
Well i think humans have a remarkable ability to not care about what they can't see. I mean I feel like I care about the workers who are exploited. But in truth I do nothing to help them not even simpoloc acts. Many people don't know and many who know learn to live with it. This is why I worry about the future. If the resources of the wealthy increase as they have been. Soon almost every human will be something that the super rich will think about. Some maybe will even feel guilt, but they will do nothing to help, because those poor people will be so far from them. It would poetic justice in a sense if people like me lived long enough to see first hand the plights of these third world countries inflicted upon us.
Jaxon Jenkins
Yes.
This is generally how the world works.
They aren't responsible for their situation, and neither am I.
They will live happier lives if I give them money to make me shit, than they would have if China didn't have a massive production sector.
Then hippies will cry about their working conditions without realizing that the sweatshops have lifted hundreds of millions of people out of poverty and saved untold lives from preventable diseases.
Also, I'll get a desktop stirling engine, and it'll actually be pretty well made.
Xavier Miller
Those factory workers should be grateful since the alternatives are pretty much worse in every way. It's basic economics.
Jaxson Perry
Chinks don't have souls.
Jaxon Price
First world millennial shits should be grateful since the alternatives are pretty much being an enslaved chinese factory laborer
Dominic Hughes
>They aren't responsible for their situation, and neither am I. yes you are
Jacob Ross
How?
>you bought the product
You're right, I'm responsible for them being able to access better education and health care.
I may well have saved them or their childrens lives.
Xavier Bennett
This, neoliberalism literally saved China.
Grayson Lopez
>no one is responsible therefore it's fair that I make as much in one hour of jerking off to porn as a Chinese worker makes in 12 hours >they should be glad I am buying whatever Walmart puts on the shelves with my NEETbux
