How Child Labor in India and Madagascar fuels Tech Industry
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- Опубліковано 13 тра 2023
- What is mica? Mica is a mineral with a layered or platy structure. Due to its pearl shimmer and good electrical conductivity, it is used by different industries in various products: in cars, mobile
phones, computers, household appliances as well as in cosmetics. What is the dark side of this shiny mineral? In two words: child exploitation. We delve deeper into this issue in this short documentary
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We must find synthetic alternatives to these minerals, not only because of those horrendous labor practices, but for the sake of the planet in general
Those companies are 100% aware
0:03 Ok, you got me. I bought all of that because I'm building a robot waifu in my garage. I know, Nier automata got me acting unwise...
Process of Unequal exchange.
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Daman ,us Indians need to look into this 🇮🇳🇮🇳🇮🇳🇮🇳🇮🇳🇮🇳
Please do! Jai Hind.
It's capitalism
Won't happen!
Corruption Inequality 🤷🏽♂️
First remove your ugIy hindu caste system
more people need to see this thank you for bringing attention to this
Congolese are the biggest victim of the cobalt and diamond industries.
I recommend doing podcast with
Keith Harmon Snow, he is one of the most knowledgeable journalists on the exploitation of Congo.
I appreciate the research , but putting caste in everything is just sick of Reuters . 16-29% dalits are just India's average . Its not high in any sense so connecting it make no sense.
That’s the only prism thru which many people are only ever willing to see India (particularly Hindus, who are hated much like Jews are by the “modern” ideology followers)
Thanks!
Nomber one exporter nomber 2 importer how does that happen
Well this is horrible why aren't there law enforcement to stop those ?
India 🪷 doesn't tend to care about temporary problems like the happiness of the living population and focuses more one permanent national strength, usually for the next BS crisis it has to deal with.
Besides, problems like these will inevitably whither away with India's urbanisation trend reducing competition among rural workers.
Basically if it is not going to last long enough to be a problem for the people's grandchildren, India 🪷 usually doesn't care, unless it is bored.
@@UniDocs_Mahapushpa_Cyavana so they don't care
It's like a person who has a scratch doesn't treat it before it's become an infection and be more costly and more dangerous
It's share stupidity that will come to bite down.
@@interestingman6934 It is not an infection 🦠. They were never doing anything greatly productive for the nation in the first place.
Believing moral 😇 actions pay for themselves is.
@@UniDocs_Mahapushpa_Cyavana To be honest, that's a terrible point of view
@@solsolsolomon You aren’t going to be saying that if your nation 🏛 collapses due to being too weak to handle unforeseen events.
What kind of people are running these corporations? There's no way they dont know where their mica is coming from.
4k in one day on a channel with 109k subs? Wonder why so many haven't seen anything this informative.
I think it's a matter of the topic's lack of popularity or simply because Simone and I only recently started making videos again after a long period of inactivity. Alternatively, I would blame the youtube algorithm
- Jacopo -
@@novalectiointernational UA-cam will black ball this video.
UA-cam algorithm is shit
People don't like to watch a viedeo on an inconvenient truth that makes them uneasy.
This is not at all new information. Modern slavery and human trafficking exceeds on a yearly basis the total slaves moved across the Atlantic. People don't see this because they do not want to see this. Cheep smartphones are far more important to the average "consumer" than human suffering.
Good luck with the algorithm.
Could you do videos on the situations on Libya, Yemen, Peru, Azerbaijan-Armenia, Sub-Saharan African countries(too many conflicts/subjects to mention) ?
It all depends on the topics that will be covered in the respective Italian channels. In the meantime you can already find here a video dedicated to the situation in Yemen: ua-cam.com/video/a_baD-Y8GP4/v-deo.html
- Jacopo -
@@novalectiointernational Yes you have one video about Yemen, but they are is so much to talk about it. Unfortunately I had not realise that you have an equivelant Italian channel, you should promote it a bit here too so we also support that , maybe with subtitles it would be great. Grazie Jacopo!
Big respect to this channel for covering such crucial matters. Mainstream media will never cover these matters.
With such low production costs, you’d think that EVs would be a little more a affordable
The sad part is that if they cut the industries, people starve. We should worry about child trafficers nat our border.
Who owns the Mines?
Same goes for china as well
Expected comment from Indian pajjeet.
Under Chinese law, no one under the age of 16 can work. And those who do employ children will face Jail
@@TrickXxl but they seem to still do it illegally
Wow
Bravo for mentioning countries like Madagascar
up!
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Not PROUD INDIA moment
Superpower 2025💪
Sorry what? as a Dutch person, how are we the 2nd largest exporter of Mica? where are our huge miens for this? i have never heard of it. i think you confused the number of mica Rotterdam receives and exports again through the port with our own exports. or do we have mines i have never heard about? i cant find anything online about this.Your sources you provided do not name us as the main producers. but do show us as exporters. so where do we magically get this mica from?
Here is the data oec.world/en/profile/hs/mica#:~:text=Mica%20are%20a%20part%20of,and%20France%20(%249.19M)
you guys are just in denial, your major corp are behind the scenes is Africa as well, forcing previously China corp co owned mines to be given to Western countries. These China companies provide 50% share back to Africa countries meaning the government or african corp owns them as well and the money from the mines goes back to the economy. Western countries come in and robbed us by using military force or CIA to overthrow our leaders. Shame on the whites
@@novalectiointernational I dont think this website is too accurate, I remember researching fro my economics class once and the website said Norway imports, in terms of services, a total value of $90...
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You don’t sound like the Tajikistan video at all. Who narrates those
Where are PARENTS?
The children yearn for the mines as seen by Minecraft being a very popular game for them.
Minecraft is indoctrination for us to become miners. Minors working as miners
Those poor iron miners have their bread and stone pickaxes deducted from their pay, justice for them!
Here’s the problem though. If the children can’t work in the mines, where else will they work? Sweatshops? It’s apparent that the children are forced to work because the parents don’t earn enough.
This is what happens when people want anything, whether its materials for phones and paint, or oil to run their cars and electricity. When people get established outside of poverty, in the middle class they want actual goods and they dont want to have to die in the mines to get them, so other people die in the mines, those that dont have the luxury of asking for a minimum wage and safety protocols like those in the west that make it so people dont have to die horribly so you can get your phone but make it so that companies who are looking for profits move elsewhere.
The only real options are, stop buying these products or make it so that people in the west have the same conditions as developing nations to get businesses to even bother. I doubt most of these places are willing to put in place the same regulations as us because they will lose the opportunity they see in these exploitative systems
Putting more people in povertous situations won't solve poverty
@@faitharmstrong3188 obliging companies to invest in building minimum wages and security within miners.
@@carkawalakhatulistiwa this is an ok solution but a better one would be establishing a miner's guild to make sure all of them are being paid all the money they earned as well as being as safe as possible
@@faitharmstrong3188 here's the problem with that and it's the same one that drove these unregulated practices to these places in the first place. Companies take advantage of these labour conditions to get resources at dirt cheap levels as doing so in their own regions is too expensive in part due to regulations, minimum wages etc, so in order to dodge that they import from places willing to ignore them. So as say Madagascar regulates out child labor, dangerous mining conditions and unregulated mining then these companies will just move on to the next place and start again. Unfortunately that's just the nature of seeking exponential profit above all else.
The only way you could get around that is by nationalizing these industries but even then all it takes is the wrong party in power and then these practices return anyways as austerity measures.
Some of these children are forced to work to eat so banning them from doing so creates other problems. The world is such a shitty place for some it's hard for the Western world to understand the idea that you work or starve. Had conversations about this in the past and I have no solutions. There is not enough money in the area to save these children from starving and what there is, is not used wisely.
Here indians make sigma edits about their country where childrens working like SIaves to get food 😂
These Italians should stick to being cooks like David Rocco. Atleast people will like them becasue they have something useful to offer then. Not some outdated misinformation about "third-world" countries that suits their racist worldview.
Hey man I am surprised your channel hasn’t degenerated into a Ukraine fanboy channel like most informative channels have become . I am so tired of that I blocked all the channels that do that . Thanks for keeping it real .
Agreed. Absolutely no info on Sudan, Ethiopia etc.
Can you give examples of channels that became Ukraine fanboys?
@@Harry_S._ infographics show , caspian report, visualpolitk
Whats wrong with supporting Ukraine
@@ugniusore nothing . but i dotn want to hear about it every day.
I mean you do need them kids to work hard. Good work 👏
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I buy new big ass LG TV, god bless netherland greatest country in the world🇳🇱🇳🇱🇳🇱🇳🇱🇳🇱🇳🇱
Can't we just separate Bihar form India ? This state is the worst always holding us back
This state has been historically pretty significant. It's the government allocating resources to places where they aren't needed like instead of spending every money in Gujarat, spend it in Bihar to develop it.
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Documentaries like this make me say thank you Jesus, I was born in the United States of America 🇺🇸
And USA company take profit, create corruption and civil war in other countries
Oh boy
It was like this in the USA, only just a century ago.
"... was born in the United Snakes of America where I can benefit from child labour and be blissfully unaware of all the human suffering supporting my unhealthy and extravagant and utterly empty lifestyle." Couldn't have said it better myself. Cheers!
Oh, and don't forget the deadly wasteland in North Central China where processing of Rare Earth Minerals has killed everything in a hundreds of kilometres radius, childhood cancer is off the charts and the life expectancy is less than 40.
Enjoy that new smartphone. I'm quite sure you are grateful someone else is dying for your indulgences.
Cheers!
Dont know what goes on in your meat industry do you? Or the child slave labour american corporations now legally indulge in in third world countries.
Plz Use a correct map of India from the next time if u decide to use india in ur content video
Kashmir is disputed land, deal with it
@@novalectiointernational Work is in progress my friend....Very Soon entire Kashmir & Gilgit baltistan will be undisputed part of India🇮🇳...In that case Entire world will come to know as well as You.. Thankyou for ur concern though 🙏🏻
@@novalectiointernational then show it as disputed land. who gave you right to remove from map.
Pajits got offended
Bro has toilet problems, Labour problems, Caste system
And he got offended by a silly map 💀
And people in first world countries have a meltdown because of pronouns. This world is a joke
Really. 😅
The real shock was to see a movement for human rights like BLM being turned into a new franchise to sell stuff.
But the problem is that we westerners focus more on our shame rather than on what we can do if we had the morality fiber and the will to produce changings that are significant.
And unfortunately right now some if not almost all of these poor countries have matured a distrust set of feelings about west that brings them to form their own alliances or to rely on Russia (a country ked by a man that just see everything's else as a tool to power up Russia itself) instead of trying new ways to rise up and deal with us.
But its comprehensible and understandable since major western powers up to this date had just few goals when it came to deal with these countries: exploit whatever its possible and keep these countries in a state of vassalage towards west.
Now things are changing a bit, with European countries that are moved by necessity both material and moral, to deal with countries rich of resources and to do it in terms of equality.
We Italians have tried and succeded in such goal when it came for the russian gas crisis. Not only that, but it is in our precise interests to help African countries to become stronger and by that acquiring strong allies on the continent to secure, stabilize and strenghten our economic bounds and relationships.
Both will benefit from this, and since we are treat them as equals, providing jobs and money and cooperating with their "armed forces" (right now they are not able to perform complex defense, but we are working on it) they are maturing a new sense of trust and respect. Over than recovering from the difficult situation where they are.
It will still require years to fully fulfill the goals, but at leadt for now we put the basis for a peaceful and prosper future for both sides.
And I think America and the rest of Europe should follow this example.
We can't simple just look at what will happen to them with stuff like climate changing ongoing.
We have to heal each others. Or it will be the end for all.
It's just a way to keep the masses focuses on futile debates without a possible answer
@@davideghirelli5856 exactly.
Old romans called it: "panem et circense" or "bread and games".
@@danielefabbro822 Nothing u said make sense and no the west doesn’t want to help those countries devlop and the west is also controlled by coportion and are also controlled by captial
@@davideghirelli5856 exactly and distraction
Put this in the context of all the melaninated Americans wanting reparations for slavery they did not experience while completely ignoring all the slavery going on in the contemporary world. What a WONDERFUL world! And this is not new - slavery is common, universal, pervasive and merely changes form and location.
Who cares
THIS WAR OF MINE MUSIC!! LOL