Warning: This post not suitable for minors or the easily excitable.
Turns out that major U.S. chocolate powerhouses like Mars and Hershey's have been using cocoa beans harvested off the western coast of Africa by means of slave labour. (More info: 1, 2, 3, 4) Slave labour? Is this 2002? Somewhere along the line the entire world got retuned to make every god damn thing cheaper. No one wants to shell out money, but everyone wants to make gobs of it. Every major ethical/moral/social difficulty with bad business is rooted in making shit cheaper yet still turning out a bloody red profit.
Why the obsession with lining our mortal pockets? We exist on this earth for 65-80 years, some longer. Why bother with money? Yes its a means, but means to what? Should human existence be so fiercely tied to the concept of making money and living a life of luxury? From a very early age parents dream of their children to be doctors (who rip everyone off), engineers, etc. Professions that inherently are related to making a tidy sum. Obviously no one wants their child to be unhappy but why the association with money? Why not an obsession with an enlightened child? A child who will become a human being that pushes the concept of humanity to the next level. We've been stuck on this level of cash money for too long. So long in fact, that the earth can't support it for too much longer. Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying theres anything wrong with making money. I would love to have a cool billion burning a hole in my pocket, with more coming in regularly. However, I don't want the blood of people, animals or the earth all over my cold hard cash. Yea I want a Lambo, let me know when it runs on renewable fuel.
Why can't hoards of money be made without fucking the world?
What the hell is going? If we aren't busy fucking the environment, we fuck each other, if we get tired of that we fuck some animals, when we get tired of fucking all that the earth has to offer we'll move on to something extraterrestrial or we'll figure out new ways to fuck the earth once again. Why? Why can we as human beings not survive without fucking everything up? For every beautiful thing man may have done/created/thought of we have 50 things that are just pure spawns of hell. Purely from a behavioural perspective, human beings can absolutely be categorized as viruses, hairy viruses.
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Posted by Mr. Keyur at November 8, 2002 01:37 AM