CBS News found children in Ghana as young as 5 years old using machetes nearly as big as themselves to harvest the cocoa beans that end up in some of America's most-loved chocolates like M&Ms and Snickers. Debora Patta reports.
  • whaleross@lemmy.worldEnglish
    242·
    10 个月前

    Why is it so fucking hard for company executives to just be a decent human being? Damn.

    • OtakuAltairEnglish
      151·
      10 个月前

      Because Capitalism rewards greed and exploitative behaviour. Only natural for those kinds of people to rise to the top under this system.

      If you want change, join/organize protests, unions, and Socialist movements.

      • electrogamerman@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        10 个月前

        It is not only in benefit of those people, but also of the countries they live in, and that’s why capitalism rewards exploitative behavior.

      • OtakuAltairEnglish
        2·
        10 个月前

        Organize/join protests and unions if you don’t like it. It’s the only to make the ruling class do something in a class based society.

    • Cosmic Cleric@lemmy.worldEnglish
      91·
      10 个月前

      Why is it so fucking hard for company executives to just be a decent human being?

      The ‘piss you off’ hard truth?

      Because we enable it. We protect it. We allow it.

      We enshrine their rights in corporation laws to do the things they want to do, put profits above people.

      They are not policed, instead they are rewarded by paying those people who would police them not to do so.

      As a society, we allow this to happen.

      So then, what kind of people would gravitate to running a corporation, under those conditions? Potential unlimited power, with potential no oversight?

      Fuck, I’m pissed just writing this.

      • OtakuAltairEnglish
        5·
        10 个月前

        B-but publicly owned regulated companies is Socialism