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Originally Posted by Niamh.

I was thinking that, I'm sure pretty almost much everything is made in China The big corporations are the ones most to blame for that. They should be making more of a stand about the slave labour in countries like China but money is much more important than people

I was reading an article yesterday about the working conditions at Amazon / Apple / etc factories. Apparently there ARE a tonne of maximum working hours / minimum wage laws now... but China is so huge that there are entire cities with populations in the millions where the labour laws are just totally ignored, people working 80 hour weeks on less than half of minimum wage, etc.

But there really is no way to totally avoid it. There'll be something from China in every computer / phone / tablet, and also the majority of electronic components in every car, bus, train or plane will be from a Chinese factory. You would pretty much have to go full log cabin in the woods. I think the sad reality is that our entire world relies on exploitation in some form or other and in order for it to stop we would need to have BOTH a massive drop in population, and a massive shift in lifestyle.