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Apocalypse_666 | 11 months ago

I suggest looking into a phenomenon called "unequal exchange". Turns out that officially ending colonialism and actually ending it are two very different things. Your programming skills aren't just paid more because they are rarer, it is because we exploit the global South on a large scale.

The most blatant example of this I came across recently was this website, Asket, who sell clothing but are also fully transparent about their pricing. This is admirable, but also completely turned me off of buying anything from them: it costs them 43 dollars to create and import a pair of jeans, which they then sell for 170. Their value-add in this chain is a website and instagram ads, while the company who actually created the garment gets 29$.

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