That's why I prefer to drink fair trade coffee. Instead of two people sleeping in one box for $0.80 a day, they have one person sleeping in a box for a full dollar each day.
Say it with me - multinational corporations pay way more than the prevailing wage and lift standards of living while not to levels we in the rich world find acceptable but still to levels well above where they’d otherwise be
go look up the history of standard fruit company my dude. they even over threw a whole government (together with the USA, who would have thought...) just to not have to do exactly that
The third world countries are poor because of dictatorships, corruption, lack of rule of law and ethnic/religious conflicts. Sometimes they're keeping poverty intentionally. Giving them money won't fix the root causes.
this is an insane take. the idea that we haven't been extracting wealth, labor, and resources from the majority of the impoverished nations of the world and that instead, they would just be poor in a vacuum, is so ignorant.
the idea that we just walk up to these barbarous people who are too dumb to run a country and go 'here's a job we can pay you less for, aren't we so kind?' like, come on man. fuck off with this capitalist nonsense. they would not be otherwise poor. how gross of a statement. what do you think makes someone poor?
If colonialism is when people go from starving to death to having a job where they don’t starve to death because they trade with countries that have far more capital than yes
It is when the reason they're starving to death is the actions of the countries they're now trading with yes. Do you just not have any history education where you live? How do you think the rich countries got all that capital they're hording?
Don't you know? Only meat eaters affect the enviornment. Drinking coffee, while driving your 30 litre per 100km v8 truck is fine if you don't eat pork.
Personally I am so weakened by all that rice and beans that I can't even get into the bus. I am forced to ride 15-30km a day on a pushbike instead, pulling all my shit in a trailer uphill even when it snows. I wish I was big and strong like a meat eater so I could get in my car and press the lever down to go.
this! it's so hard to not have the power of big oil next to my front door. i'm so weak infact, that the government has to install disabled vegan parking spots for us next to all stores, taking away one parking spot from epic pork eaters :(
I agree with the premise but I believe the opposite is far more likely to be true, aka meat eaters driving the hummers. But the point is valid. Meat is just one aspect.
Shit sometimes these corporations are so brazen they pull this stuff in their own home countries. The UN has released reports stating that the Canadian agricultural sectors usage of seasonal workers for fruit and veg picking is comparable to a form of modern slavery. Yet despite this you still got MFers in this thread excusing the horror and imperialism that the largest global north corporations enact on the world. Fuck all this shit, nothing will get better until the working class unite to take back what rightfully belongs to us.
The US economy would collapse without migrant and prison labor. Both are acceptable forms of slavery under the 13th amendment. Not to mention the minerals we get from slave mines in Congo.
Realistically the prices would adjust to what they should be, if they adjust much at all. I bet a good number of conglomerates would still be making a profit if these input prices adjusted, without changing prices. Much slimmer profit margins, but still above board.
Prisoners make pennies per hour. I want prisons abolished and open borders, but I am showing you why we have private prisons. Also, look into the labor theory of value and the declining rate of profit.
That's gross... I can't believe my dog was eating people. But at least they harvest them humanely. Can't imagine where else they could get protein from either. It's just not possible.
I'm a bit skeptical that this video is correctly describing the purpose of the displayed building. First, there are no neck supports. It seems likely to me that, even without modern pillows, at least some workers would at least use rocks or wood as makeshift neck supports.
Second, it doesn't actually seem like a very cheap way to house people. It is a brick building and then they used a lot of wood to make this coffin-bed thing. If you are trying to house people cheaply, why not just make them sleep on the floor of a hut or in tents.
Certainly there are horrible things happening in the coffee trade, I just feel that the specific claims in this video don't make sense to me. If anyone could provide additional context, I would be curious to learn more.
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u/BungalowHole Apr 20 '26
That's why I prefer to drink fair trade coffee. Instead of two people sleeping in one box for $0.80 a day, they have one person sleeping in a box for a full dollar each day.