I've been digging around in the trash for too long now. Way too long. There's so much trash, everywhere, and there's more and more as you go up.. It starts in the clothing industry, which practically employs slaves... well, This Jon Raymond guy says it better.
In china, they're paid from 6 cents to 14 cents an hour, work seven days a week, and are housed in dormitories and kept under 24 hour surveillance. In Haiti's assempbly plants, they earn 28 cents an hour, are harassed and raped by their male bosses and feed their babies with sugar water because they can't afford milk. In Guatemala's sweatshops, they're beaten to work faster, and everywhere they're fired or threatened with the loss of their jobs if they protest or try to organize a union.
And then, illegal dumping of biowaste in water. The japanese hunting endagered whales for high profit in the food industry. War in africa, ignored. Human trafficking, ignored. Child prostitution, ignored. Countries with shitty laws, left alone because of this fucking to-each-his-own system. World leaders with the right ideals but the wrong actions. The petrol industry buying out technological advancements in waste free energy to profit from gas sales. Mercenaries and rogue governments fighting equally corrupt rebels loose in central africa. Corrupt governance left alone because of political reasons - like Motubu, the CIA sponsored and now exiled leader of Congo, who eloped with 17 or something billion dollars in the 90s. The world trade, the IMF loaning money to countries like Congo, who have no means of ever repaying their debts. The IMF, sometimes handing out partial debt forgiveness, but always demanding ridiculously constraining reforms before they actually do anything, reforms that, like in Tanzania, do more bad than good for the common folk, forcing the country to take away public services like free education, and forcing them to up strict regimens and raise taxes so that the economic structure looks like that of a developped country, but without the infrastructure to support itself.
And then of course, if Tanzania has free education despite being an impoverished country crumbling under debt, why are we, fat and vain citizens of the West, not complaining? And where is our tax money, our efforts, going? Local businesses in hunt of profit close down and outsource to mexico where the work is cheap, leaving thousands unemployed. Harper siding with the MNC's and america, selling off our soil and implementing programs that help along the international corporations at the expense of small, local businesses, which in any and all industries, are crushed in the competition and have to close shop? WHAT-THE-FUCK-IS-GOING-ON?
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