The only reason I'm writing this comment is because i fell like this video, while unintentionally, will contribute to the widening neo-luddism that has been growing in online discourse since the early 2010s as a continuation of the long line of intellectually vacant hippie-environmentalism of the '60s. This started as legions of hipsters demanding that albums, did in fact, sound better, and has since morphed into this low energy, anti-industrial, Thunbergocratic sentiment that is super prominent today.<br><br>The problem with your analysis is that it assumes that child labor, obscene pollution, and general exploitation is a function of electric vehicles. Rather,  this is a function of corruption. Nations that host mines could enforce regulations regarding child labor and pollution, but they don't because they want the business, in cases where the host lacks leverage, or they want to pocket the difference, in cases where the host has leverage.<br><br>I'm not saying that the issue of corruption absolves us of responsibility. However, when you look at our modern industrial society, if you were to propose that we should refuse to do business with any of these people, then you'd induce a societal collapse in which all of the children everywhere would largely die. Those deaths wouldn't be isolated to children, either, and would start in the developing world and cascade outward as the finely balanced economy we built in the post war period, the one that has been so completely strained under the relatively minor inconvenience that was covid, would grind to a halt. This is an age old dilemma. Do you want a civilization with 70% childhood mortality and where starvation is common? Or do you want the one we live in now, where you need to hold leaders accountable for corruption lest you see a tenth of the suffering of the former? <br><br>Foisting this topic onto fart sniffing pseudo intellectuals that we already know are full of shit was a waste of a 15 minute video. Essentially, by making the focus more of a partisan sideswipe (given the current landscape in the US) than an in depth look at why people make these kinds of bargains and what we can do to prevent future exploitation, you're missing the point in a way eerily similar to the very group you deride as myopic and self aggrandizing.<br><br>And no, i don't own an EV.