[kiawe_fire]

As an American, it’s strange seeing this discussed so openly.

In the US, any notion of “protecting the culture” is considered taboo. Implying that outside influence would not be your peers, and using terms like “serfs in some content factory in some lawless backwater” would be considered downright racist.

Personally, I can see value in keeping a thriving industry locally (which, again, is almost taboo in the US). I wonder how this compares to countries like, say, Japan or South Korea, which have thriving entertainment sectors of their own. Do they also have protection laws to enable this, or are they able to maintain this organically?

[jtode]

I can see why people steeped in capitalist ideology, using phones built with child slavery, might not want to talk about the lawless backwaters where they do business. Discussing our own personal, sleek, pretty, touchscreen-having artifact of child slavery and how we all have one in our pockets would definitely make the people who own stock in the slave mine (edit: and that would be anyone with a retirement plan, more or less) uncomfortable.

People might start getting woke, who knows.

[kiawe_fire]

I get it, but that’s definitely a larger first world problem affecting the people of many countries, I presume including Canada.

You have plenty of people both willing and unwilling to face this issue everywhere.

And you might be surprised by the types of people who share your attitude. They aren’t all as woke as you might think.