Aside from money laundering, who creates so much foreign money (factory workers
using slave labour, imprisoned workers who might have been protesting for a human rights cause?
Their main temple, Crocodilopolis, was built on Mount Azimuth
using slave labour in the place of a demolished temple to the Goddess.
(Hint: building a few houses in New Orleans five years after Katrina does not make up for
using slave labour.
(If
you use slave labour to build a wind turbine, is that an ethical source of energy?)
These include the use of child labour, sourcing chocolate from cacao farms which
use slave labour, stealing rural water resources in the United States, marketing formula with questionable and sometimes outright illegal claims, etc etc..
Not exact matches
But it's not the firms wooing young talent that dominate the news — it's the ones
using interns as
slave labour.
Using concepts from a long time ago, thought of by another society to set - up a relatively new country and doing so on the backs of
slave labour... if that is called «establishing the system» then so be it.
We enslave and abuse them, we take over their countries and their resources, we exploit their poverty by investing in their poverty and virtually
use them as
slave labour, as we close down factories in our own country to make a fortune out of others misery, while at the same time put people out of work in the home country.
Armenians who weren't killed were either
used as
slave labour (and then murdered), sold into sex slavery, or forcibly converted to Islam.
Thousands of people are
used as
slave labour to carry military supplies, and forced to walk in front of army columns as human minesweepers.
According to federal prosecutor Daniel Avelino, many of these companies have a track record of illegal practices: «Almost half of the companies involved in this scam have other law suits pending for environmental crimes or the
use of
slave labour, amongst other things.»
It is also important to note that this was at a time when the Trans - Atlantic
Slave Trade was a major source of economic gain for North American and European powers, who
used un-free
labour of Africans to amass the wealth that allowed these regions to enjoy otherwise unimaginable luxury and leisure and which would later drive the West's Industrial Revolution (also built on the backs of Blacks, through the
use of exploited Africans who, in Africa, extracted the natural resources
used to build Western cities, factories and products of the Industrial Revolution).
Dixon ended the speech with a quote from the German philosopher Leibniz, that many supporters of legal AI and automation will no doubt strongly agree with: «It is unworthy of excellent men to lose hours like
slaves in the
labour of calculation, which could safely be relegated to anyone else if machines were
used.»