Plastic injection molding doesn’t require a lot of hands, but it does require a relatively skilled supervision of the process and the assembly line.
As a result, plastic toys aren’t a good candidate for child labor. It’s just not cost effective compared to automated systems.
Stuffed toys, though, may benefit from tiny fingers doing fine stitching, so maybe that would’ve been a better candidate for comics like this.
what would marx do?
God damn Lemmy is bleak
I mean, I get that sentiment, but at the same time, that’s just actually the world we live in. Maybe the comic isn’t 100% accurate, but it’s good to be reminded once in a while, I feel.
Yeah, if anything, it should remind people that others aren’t as fortunate as us, and not only be thankful for our luck, but to try and make the world better day by day for everyone. That’s how I see it anyway.
Yeah except here we are reminded 99.9% of the time and it gets old
Hard agree. I don’t think there’s anything wrong with celebrations, indulging and being merry on days like this. Remember the other, though, if you have the capacity.
are there any bloom-ish stuff here?
The person who posted this probably did it on an iPhone while patting themselves on the back
society
Why don’t Chinese kids believe in Santa? Because they know they make the toys.
Those kids do great work!
Always someone complaining
My dad used to complain about this stuff while he was handing me the gift on Xmas morning. I was like 8 and I remember getting pissed like “well why are you buying it for me then?!”
Man my friends have kept their kid believing in santa at the age of 11. Purely because it brings joy.
I don’t think you had a great dad :/
Someone should put on Riders of Justice with Mads Mikkelsen and understand the bloodshed caused by one Estonian girl wanting a blue bike for Christmas.
this is why I give my kids beatings for Christmas. so they appreciate the other 364 days of the year when I just scream at them.
Mom?
Do you open your new set of jumper cables first?
I make my kids do it.
the true gift is the look on their face every year.
This is about 14 deep.
idk dude, Im old but cruelty still hits pretty hard
It’s just some feel bad moral porn and feels profound for 5 milliseconds
At what levels of irony poisoning are you operating to view any reminder of the injustice as “porn” lmao
“<subject> porn” has become shorthand for gratuitous objectification in order to cheaply moralise and has been for a while (eg “inspiration porn”).
They’re being a monumental arsehole about it, but they do have a point - this comic isn’t trying to change the system, or even point it out - it’s a cheap shot designed to make you feel satisfied in recogbising how screwed up things are.
A comic that would have been very different with the exact same images but a “remember that your child’s Christmas joy may come from exploited children elsewhere” and a suggestion to shop local, or even linking to ethical shopping guides and apps, international groups advocating worker and / or children’s rights would do a thousandfold more than the comic as it stands. Which like the subject matter it claims to decry is cheap, nasty and exploitative.
Basically: this comic as it stands is doing the exact same thing it’s “condemning”. Using exploited children as fodder to serve.
this comic isn’t trying to change the system, or even point it out - it’s a cheap shot designed to make you feel satisfied in recogbising how screwed up things are.
I’m not sure how you got that and how is this satisfying to anyone, its clearly pointing it out how the system is fucked up.
And a bunch of action links under the comic would be nice, though I’m sure after looking at it you remembered on your own you’ve yet to donate/phone a congressmen/send some anthrax this season. Takes all kinds 🌠
It’s so cute when people like you show their verbal clumsiness within one single sentence.
Go celebrate now, it’s Christmas :) I bet they’re waiting for you.
we don’t celebrate catholic christmas here, and you keep saying it to ppl like its a burn or something?
It’s so cute when people like you show their verbal clumsiness within one single sentence.
might be the nicest thing I heard this week
Don’t put people down to feel smugly superior on Christmas. If you must, simply stay offline for the day.
Moral porn? I hope you made that phrase up, because it shouldn’t exist.
It’s what they use at the ethical goonsesh.
That’s one way to demonstrate your lack of vocabulary 😂🥰 Merry Christmas bro, I hope you get a book.
“Sanctimonious” is the word you were looking for.
I don’t see the issue with what he said? Considering you clearly derived the meaning from it without issue.
Just .ml things.
There’s a grain of truth in here somewhere, but it’s really hard to find.
Of course their message is just “West bad, Christmas bad.”
sh.itjust.works user posts on .world
“Is this a .ml thing?”
And yet…
And yet what? Finish the sentence, if it’s so obvious that it is implied?
And yet… “.ml users are here agreeing with it”?
Well, sure, but apparently so are non-.ml-users.
So what’s your point?
Nevermind: I don’t care to talk to stupid people.
Pretty sure that reflects more on you than any comment you’re trying to make.
Good luck on rooting out the secret Reds lurking behind every corner, trying to corrupt an impurify your precious bodily fluids.
It’s the truth. You think rampant consumerism isn’t creating consequences? Do you think personal purchases shouldn’t be held to moral standards?
Oh, do you not buy anything made in China?
Stupid people LOVE strawmen.
I do my absolute best I can to source anything I buy from countries that I know uphold labor standards. Beyond that, I also attempt to buy sustainably and especially from worker coops and union made goods.
So no, I don’t buy nothing from china(and other countries without strong labor laws). But I do buy very, very little from there, and only when there are no other options. Considering the only material goods I buy are bikes, Clothes, and food, it’s not the hardest.
Will they ever look at why and how China itself would allow these conditions to arise as a complicated nuanced view of global trade?
Nah, West bad
Or realistic suggestions to fix actual problems?
No, they just want to throw blame onto parents who buy their kids gifts for Christmas. Because clearly that is the evil.
The actual evil in this image is wearing shoes in the house. Funny that that’s likely also part of the propaganda against the West.
(Started as tongue in cheek and ended less so.)
The funny thing is that they think this is some grade A anti-capitalist porn, when all it really does is show how the countries that allow sweatshops are morally bankrupt.
And where are those sweatshops usually located?
Reddit is leaking…
How do you think you got here:)?
What is this supposed to mean? It seems to imply this is dismissable
A reference to /r/Im14andthisisdeep
Dismissable? 😂
It’s peak r/im14andthisisdeep moral porn. Zero nuance, all Weltverbesserer vibes and “look how enlightened because capitalism bad”.
No argument, just visual shorthand and emotional blackmail.
Feels profound for abt five seconds.
I went to look at your posts to see all the great content that you’ve provided to the community.
It looks like your high horse is pretty short.
That’s a great way to spend your Christmas holiday 🥰 you seem to be doing well. How many friends visited you today in your boyhood room 😂?
That’s a lot of words to say “I agree”
Dang, who hurt you?
Just block him and move on. Don’t get bothered about these people.
Plenty of people. It comes with the territory when you have a life ;)
Now go celebrate, and merry Christmas buddy!
Wait til you hear about gas prices going down.
Those kids get to play with hundreds of that toy? How unfair
Ignore that. Don’t look at the violence of capitalism I use, let’s keep screaming about Ai and water or whatever.
I mean that’s all a part of the same conversation but okay.
What is with all the agitprop posts today?
I guess Putin and Xi dont give their trolls the day off.
Hey man, if you don’t want to critically think about your consumption (or the massive imbalance of consumption between the Global North and the Global South) then I guess good for you. But to think that this comic being posted is somehow a direct attack by Russia and the PRC is certainly… a take.
It’s unnecessary, also how the fk is this your first time having this thought, this is woke and complex for schoolchildren not adults who are and have been aware of this. This isn’t revealing of anything.
it’s unnecessary
According to you, I guess?
I genuinely don’t understand what you’re arguing here? That there exists a global disparity and because it’s ‘obvious’ therefore we should not comment on it or be critical of it?
also how the fk is this your first time having this thought, this is woke and complex for schoolchildren not adults who are and have been aware of this.
Again, what are you even arguing? Simply because you think this is self-evident does not make it so. Nor does it mean everyone in the west reflects or cares about the disparity.
Are you under the impression that stupid people don’t exist?
You’re right, I shouldve known there would be plenty on niche lemmy, this is just self stroking
Nice strawman, did you bring a torch?
You do understand that in this exchange you’re the one who’s strawmanning, right?
You literally propped up an argument (in the first half of your comment) that wasn’t made by the other person so that you could knock it down.
All they did was call it agitprop. You assumed/made up a bunch of things about that commenter.
So no. You are wrong. They never made a strawman argument, and claiming that they did means that you don’t know what a strawman is in the first place.
I wish people passionate about this sort of thing were just a little smarter, because damn, you did a great job at making us look stupid to people who actually know what words mean.
The OP comic is the context in which I’m responding. It itself establishes the commentary on the disparity between the global north and south.
All they did was call it agitprop.
This is literally the straw man… There is no logical basis in insinuating a geopolitical conspiracy against the west simply because a comic posted on Christmas is critical about our consumption practices.
There’s a whole fuckload of jumping to conclusions here.
I wish people… were a little smarter
Yeah dude, same.
Again, no, you do not know the meaning of the strawman logical fallacy, and until you admit to the fact that you attempted to misuse it, you will receive 0 concessions from me about anything else.
Good point let’s buy less from Xi
