CBS News found children in Ghana as young as 5 years old using machetes nearly as big as themselves to harvest the cocoa beans that end up in some of America's most-loved chocolates like M&Ms and Snickers. Debora Patta reports.
  • whaleross@lemmy.worldEnglish
    252·
    1 year ago

    Why is it so fucking hard for company executives to just be a decent human being? Damn.

    • OtakuAltair@lemm.eeEnglish
      151·
      1 year ago

      Because capitalism rewards greed and exploitative behaviour. Only natural for those kinds of people to rise to the top under this system.

      If you want change, join/organize protests and unions.

      • electrogamerman@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        It is not only in benefit of those people, but also of the countries they live in, and that’s why capitalism rewards exploitative behavior.

    • Cosmic Cleric@lemmy.worldEnglish
      91·
      1 year ago

      Why is it so fucking hard for company executives to just be a decent human being?

      The ‘piss you off’ hard truth?

      Because we enable it. We protect it. We allow it.

      We enshrine their rights in corporation laws to do the things they want to do, put profits above people.

      They are not policed, instead they are rewarded by paying those people who would police them not to do so.

      As a society, we allow this to happen.

      So then, what kind of people would gravitate to running a corporation, under those conditions? Potential unlimited power, with potential no oversight?

      Fuck, I’m pissed just writing this.