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edhopper

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13. We buy this stuff and our corporation

Mon Jan 23, 2012, 02:53 PM

Jan 2012

only look at the bottom line. I know this is idealistic, but what if people said they won't buy products made in factories where conditions are little better than slavery, like many in China. What if corporations like Apple or IBM or HP said we will not have our products made in factories with these conditions.
It is said for evil to prevail, good people simple need to do nothing.

The "Free Market" seems to mean less and less freedom for most.

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Were the non-slave States complicit in Slavery [View all] edhopper Jan 2012 OP

I believe you mean "were" not "Where"... glowing Jan 2012 #1

OOPS! edhopper Jan 2012 #2

Just reading about the people in Mass who ran the textile mills... WCGreen Jan 2012 #3

Fantastic book! YankeyMCC Jan 2012 #4

Just picked it up after buying it when Borders went south.... WCGreen Jan 2012 #9

My guess is that they didn't want the competition of slave workers. Not altogether Ecumenist Jan 2012 #7

yes and yes (but to a lesser degree) Motown_Johnny Jan 2012 #5

Oh yeah...Remember that at one time, Slavery was in every state. Ecumenist Jan 2012 #6

Complicit? liberal_biker Jan 2012 #8

IDK Johonny Jan 2012 #10

were Africans in Africa who sold their brothers into slavery also complicit? exactly where msongs Jan 2012 #11

That's a philosophical question, and the technical answer may be "yes", but MGKrebs Jan 2012 #12

We buy this stuff and our corporation edhopper Jan 2012 #13