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It turns out that 99% of what social justice warriors say is just virtue signaling. they don't mean any of it.
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Anyone have the "yet you participate in society" comic saved? >

You hate slavery yet your shirt is made of cotton, checkmate Lincolnite >

Do you also call out peasants revolting using pitchforks provided by their feudal overlords? >

Bang! >

Data slave thinks he's not a slave because he gets to choose his master. >

There are so many double standards in society it’s not even funny.. This barely brushes the surface. >

“There is no ethical consumption under capitalism” - 🤓 >

Ethics is a human invention.  Let people be free. >

It’s not the consumer’s fault. That is also a falsehood proselytized by the slaveholders. >

We’re all using them to say something, might as well use it to say something beneficial >

I'd happily buy a device not made that way.  Except.. the problem is, with globalisation and corporation's all exploiting cheap labour.. it's basically not possible 
Even if the phone wasn't built by slave labour.  What about the modules that they used??  Then what about the individual electronic components that went into each module.  Then what about the raw materials used to press out those electronics?  Then what about the people who mined the materials?
Everyone is stepping on each others toes so much it's basically impossible to avoid.. 
And if you wanted to boycott the fortune 500 companies and opt out of global corporations dominance and exploitations you'd literally have to live in a cave down by a river somewhere.. >

What you mean to say is “I want to live a certain way and benefit from the things available to me. And I don’t want to live at a level lower than this, therefor I say it’s impossible to give up on these hypocritical aspects of my life.”
FTFY >

Sure. But since we are all here reading this we are all saying this. >

Absolutely, anyone who is here on Reddit complaining about those things(like OPs post) is just a big ol hypocrite.
Like damn, at least have SOME integrity. At least I’m aware that for some people(such as myself), for us to to take a dump while browsing Reddit on my phone, someone else has to suffer immeasurably. And none of us are willing to give up the way we live to rectify that situation. >

If American companies like Apple would stop producing phones overseas and made them here in America where workers have more human rights, this wouldn’t be as large of a problem. But greedy corporations don’t care. As long as they can save money and make a massive profit >

You cannot fathom how expensive a basic phone would cost if you had to pay the miners that extract the raw mineral the $22/hour they deserve instead of a piece of bread for the day and cloudy water. >

I would be fascinated to see this calculated out, just for raw cost of goods and labour (assuming all goods were obtained for labour prices as well, and how that would effect their prices). I reckon the number would be quite high, but I also think that if Apple were to NOT run away with their normal disgusting profit margins (I think they charge something like 200x for iPhones currently) that it would be maybe not quite as high as one would think? But it’s just so hard to know… I’d love for someone with more inside knowledge to calculate stuff out >

Yeah, we should probably hold Apple and the other phone companies accountable for using slave labor. It’s almost like capitalism is bad. >

“Capitalism is bad”
No, taking things to their extremes is bad. Quite the notable difference. >

This is reddit.  Self awareness will not be tolerated.  Consume.  Do not question. >

Im waiting for the hate to come raining Down on me. >

Why? Do you want to be hated? Is it a kink? >

Dumb people hate when you say smart things. >

You didn't say anything smart though >

Officer, i would like to report a murder >

Well, once you can make a phone on your own reasonably, then it’ll start being hypocritical. Otherwise it’s being a victim in the same system. >

It's like the time when my brother killed one of my sons and used his blood to stain a sign that he took to a protest against abortions >

we use them for far more than the perpetual moral conundrum you’re proposing, but I take ur point unfortunately we are subject to the ignorance imposed by human nature and influential propaganda. It’s not really our fault that our societal infrastructure ‘requires’ them by normalization but provides no ethically viable options through exploitation rooted in capitalism- not our decision to use technology. >

Hey, it was a shower thought. I like you. You’re good. >

Haha NO sorry did not mean like that. love ur shower thought it got me thinking hard ❤️❤️ >

Ever see where they mine lithium for those clean energy cars? >

Surprised that nobody has mentioned that man from the Good Place yet, seems to address this issue exactly. Basically, the answer is that you can't do anything truly ethical in this world, because somewhere down the line, there is some sort of exploitation or abuse going on. And you can't research in depth everything you do either, as that makes you antisocial and miss opportunities for growth. >

You have yo criticise from the inside, because there is no outside. >

Sounds like the type of thing people say to try and make a point to Greta Thunberg. "You say you want to save the planet but you're speaking into a microphone that was made in a factory that uses big trucks with lots of emissions to transport their goods!!!!" >

"Slave labor"? Really? Two quick things:
• Chinese workers clamor for a job at Foxconn; for many it's their ticket to the middle class. Link 1. Link 2.
• Mike Daisy, the American ~~radio journalist~~ serial fabulist who pushed the Apple-uses-slave-labor narrative the hardest, turned out to have falsified his stories, and got fired for it. Link. >

Not really. People don't care less about social justice itself than they do for looking good for supporting social justice.
Like how all of those celebrities who fight for the environment insist on using private planes which means they're doing more harm than most people. >

At least it’s Much better than the people using those same phones to deny the truth of those statements about social justice. >

We cry about China being so evil..well, our houses are full of goods  from China. >

Speak for yourself, my phone was made by a machine and I don't use it to make any social justice statements >

If your phone has a rechargeable battery in it, the cobalt was mined by slave labor.