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  • Half as many child laborers digging up cobalt in third world countries is a good start, I guess… But this does nothing to solve the root cause of the problem.

    Who’s to say when they lose their jobs at the cobalt mines they don’t move onto something even more dangerous?

    Also this assumes some sort of growth plateau. We could recycle and continue to extract at the same rate pretty easily due to growth.

    Solving child labor by recycling batteries is like trying to solve global warming with carbon capture. At best you’re just ignoring the cause. At worst you’re enabling the worst offenders by providing a smokescreen for them to hide behind.















  • Yeah, but those systems still don’t count votes by “number of shareholders” as indicated above. They’re still weighted by number of shares, just some shares have more benefits than others

    The class offered to the general public often has limited or no voting rights, while the class available to founders and executives has more voting power and often provides for majority control of the company.