0:00 I kind of like y'all there a little bit I think teaches them some values yeah get these kids to work yeah tell I got to start getting some Cobalt honestly if if anyone could benefit from child labor it's American Kids [Music] okay so Apple finally decided to do something about the horrifying conditions of cobalt mining in Africa do you know about that yes yes I do so every single iPhone that you're using has got a battery in it that every micro chip yeah it's not just Apple it's everything yeah pretty much everything yeah you got to have Cobalt and how do you get cobalt you gotta mine for it but where do you do that Africa and who's doing it kids yeah oh and a lot of poor people it's like 20 000 people in this
0:50 pit yeah everyone's covered in like mud and they're just hand mining it holy ████ so that's just one example so that when it when we see scenes like that in America it's usually Coachella or like a massive yeah but out there they're working it's cold it's work you know Cobalt it's not it's not burning man it's actual burning men and children yeah so the crazy thing is they do they do this like weird thing allegedly with to skirt around the international law where like oh we can't employ actual children to mind this Cobalt so we'll just leave the mind there if some kids happen to want to go look for themselves and they want to sell it to us as a free Trader or a was it like a a contractor yeah they're on a 1099 yeah yeah so
1:41 they'll just like all these people are just looking for whatever Cobalt they can find and they'll send kids into the smallest holes because none of these guys are mining with the right equipment yeah nobody is using any safety standard someone's just gonna make a hole and ask a kid to crawl through it and get it because these people literally don't have a choice honestly like they were saying like it's either fine Cobalt that day or you don't eat damn it's like that level of poverty that's the that's where I wanted to play Devil's Advocate where like I think from our lens it sucks when kids have to work but like let's say if an adult works and they get cobalt they can eat but it takes two people to get cobalt so they can have two meals another person just so happens to be a kid and if we don't let kids do that in their specific economy isn't uh that us taking food away from the kid yeah but
2:32 the the outrage behind this is that apple had been denying that this was even happening at all and then if Apple knows then they're like hey you should be ethically sourcing your Cobalt right instead of but then there's also the other part of it is like what if there was no like what if these people were starving in in general right and then now there's industry for them to work so now they can get food so like who knows I don't know the origin story well it's just like what we saw with those guys um I forgot if it was in Thailand where they had monkeys that they trained to get the Coconuts for them and then uh you know people that well all the way the ████ over here were like no you can't do that because that's cruel but then they're like I'm not gonna just stop doing this and not have any income in my Village and then the monkeys were like I am hungry yeah are you gonna pay
3:23 for my meals are you gonna give me food it is a tough call because like who are you from the first world to tell somebody over there but stop doing that thing Americans love doing that though right like we love doing that no we get off on that we love it because it's like virtue signaling like well I'm not gonna have an iPhone and I don't know the industry enough to where it's like do the mining companies all like have their own minds and then they illegally buy more because they can't meet demand and then so they're buying it from like so like let's say like Hey we're buying it from author authorized dealers we don't know where it's coming from right and then the authorized dealers like yeah that's coming from our mind but then they're the Shady ones that are also buying the extra stock from these illegal mines right like there's so many probably new there's so much Nuance probably to it it's like how do we know like this one guy tracked um a luxury Gene company in Europe and he tracked it all the way to North
4:14 Korean slave camps because he was like what they were doing is and that the company didn't know and then everyone's like yeah sure you didn't know but I'm like I can see how people cannot know because like let's say you're going to a warehouse in China and this China you have a contract with to making your jeans but they have a contract with North Korea yeah to manufacture you're not privy no so you don't know so you think you're buying it so you're like hey I'm gonna send my denim to this Factory so this Factory gets it and it goes your job is to patch it up put our logo whatever and then they're like well it's cheaper for us to put this in a container put it to North Korea and then they package it whatever and this is done illegally because they're not supposed to buy trade go through that way and then they just send it there they send the uh train back and
5:06 it's already done and then so it's at the warehouse so it's like there's also a lot of they linked a lot of Major Brands in the US too that does it this way unknowingly because it's going through China first or it might be going through other Asian countries that don't have that issue with North Korea and for protection of the deal itself they're not wanting to tell them what's really going on either yeah no one's asking questions really can't well we can't work with you guys because you just you just messed up and told us what are you really getting and stuff that's the same deal with tires how they Source the rubber for that it's like very extremely poor people making this rubber like all the way in Southeast Asia by the time it gets here it's marked up insanely and what they make does not reflect what we sell it for here but both sides know nothing of the other or they act like they don't you know what I mean that's crazy because it's so far
5:56 removed in this case their solution now Apple says okay here's what we're gonna do and it does kind of ████ these people over they're gonna say all right for 2025 whatever every iPhone will be made from an old iPhone that already exists so we're not going to get any more oh now they don't make money so they don't have an economy anymore exactly so you just like cut out this entire bunch of people that maybe this was all they could do and it wasn't pretty yeah but maybe there they would rather do this than whatever other thing right is offering so hard right yeah who knows it's like lesser of two evils like they're all bad situations but you know again in a country like this where there's probably very few options and you've just taken another one away because of you know something not being up to American Standard yeah it's an iffy situation yeah but then it's like
6:48 also um we're so detached from the source of things right like the force of the source of meat that we eat the Plastics that we get everything that builds this right yeah so like I think like people become shocked when they see the whole um the truth the source and the whole like process Line supply chain supply chain because like the truth is slavery still exists but in a different form but like huge like economic slavery and all the where the oil comes from all this stuff right and I'm like how stupid can you be but then at the same time I'm like well you don't most people don't take the extra time to go from one point to another point to another point to a month and then you go oh so this is where it comes from and then the Nuance of like well yeah it's like they're already poor so
7:40 now there's opportunity but then it's like at the same time it's exploitative still yeah it's hard even charity because there's like hey we come to these countries and we give them a ton of shoes and clothes right and then all the local places that were providing shoes and clothes or go out of business because of TOMS ████ Toms there was this one story about like this church that really wanted to there was like a food shortage in this country this is like in Africa or something and then they're like what we're gonna do is just bring a ton of eggs because like it was just a campaign like let's give them eggs right so then they would send over eggs or they would buy local all the local eggs whatever and what it ended up doing was it destroyed like the egg industry in a matter of a year of that country because of the yeah because they flooded the
8:30 market with eggs or they bought up all the supply just gave it to the hungry and then so like temporarily the businesses were doing well because they're like they're buying it but then they're like well Americans are going to buy it I'm gonna jack up the price oh and then they're getting it and then the people getting it for free and all this stuff and then it's like it just ruins the economy by doing it this way so it's like you can't just flood it with free clothes now what are people gonna do you can't teach a man to fish they can't build their own industry because they're just getting free t-shirts so what are yeah what are they gonna do they can't sell their own clothes anymore so it's like so crazy that like the effects are sometimes unpredictable like what happened when I think I feel like it was a bill in Melinda Gates Foundation donated a ton of mosquito Nets somewhere in Africa or Somali or something and what they did
9:20 was they took those Miss units and they turned them into fishing nets and they overfished oh wow and it ruined the uh the fish population yeah and they didn't have enough the next season so then they were like well now you can't give them mosquito Nets because they're going to turn them into fishing nets and they stop doing that and now they're all getting ████ ████ and ████ yeah and then malaria malaria spreads and then that becomes a problem for the bordering Nations right and it's like what a crazy like ecosystem yeah yeah yeah or like well let's say we do it the right way right where everyone um they're unionized they get their job they they mine the Cobalt right let's say the Dream the Dream Center right yeah what if now this is twenty thousand dollars yeah see right now so it's like now what do we do we gotta get those kids back in there
10:10 yeah yeah no sure yeah can I get a Galaxy you'll save me with chocolate too I think there's like a lot of like cocoa Farms or something that was it's like basically all child labor so all the chocolate we eat well they know what good chocolate tastes like yeah kids love chocolate they know smoke us for 40 years making chocolate you can't even taste that you know what they say as you get older your taste buds go away so what's better kids know like everything we enjoy is like either tied to like some sort of child slavery or like violence or something you know what I mean like oil and stuff it's tied to water you know everything is tied to something negative it's like it's almost like you can't really Escape it so what do you really do there's there's a really strange uh situation too when a region has an element or a mineral that they have no use for but you do that's
11:02 kind of like they can't do anything with the Cobalt there like what are they gonna do yeah I wish there's like a way or like someone that because like you know the Middle East they're so balling because they got oil everyone needs oil so if somehow they can do that where they're like okay cool everyone needs Cobalt and they can build like an Empire off of that yeah they still need to find some sort of Leverage yeah yeah it's the exploitation part of it because like let's say you're you're like Stone Age Technology right and then you know these like current day Nations need oil but then you don't know how to control your own country yet because you're destabilized then it's like well you well it's better to I guess like you guys come in and run it yeah yeah yeah yeah I think it becomes a shady deal it's a shame and then they no longer have control of their own land yep and you know what else is scary too is if
11:52 we're trying to be a superpower and we're like okay you know what we'll pull our businesses out of cobalt that area or whatever China has been like this the whole time yeah oh ████ see you later right and they come in and they'll do and who knows yeah because they don't give a ████ they don't give a ████ who knows if they're gonna happen you're breaking my bones and then now they're the ones mining all the Cobalts see you later sucker yeah you're like you know what I mean because if it's a destabilized part it's like all the superpowers are fighting for that yeah absolutely damn that's scary and that's kind of happening before our eyes right now with a lot of parts of Africa yeah it's like a war between not Africa it's like other people are trying to Jack Africa isn't it isn't it crazy how like uh people that don't see that every day but
12:43 they're like oh but these people shouldn't be you know working these kids and we agree with that but it's like if you take that away then this happens and then if you take that away but some of those people are the same people that are like we should it should be fair and then they see like all their prices at Walmart's getting high and they're like what the ████ yeah it's like well you gotta pay for it like yeah that's how it works yeah and I feel like those kids out there in Africa I think they're way stronger than our American Kids dude hell yeah they'll be okay our kids you put our kids to work nothing's gonna get done no Cobalt's gonna get money they suck at the fair when they're doing the panning for gold yeah dude you put American kids in the Sun for like 20 minutes you're like oh forget I saw this one viral video of this of this this African kid he's in
13:34 the Sudan and he was like working in a mine and he's covered in sand uh-huh there's a cow or like a horse or something he walks under the like the cow like nothing like it's a ████ shower and he starts showering in the urine of of the it's sterile yeah no it's fine but it's like to him he's like yeah this is normal but like you show this to any American out here they're gonna be like oh my God we have to save them but it's like yeah okay but they've been doing that for a thousand years that's how that's how they operate like they're different breeds that's the trouble with first word first world values encroaching on like third world issues that's the hard part but the thing is it wasn't that long ago that families here were Mining and ████ in Europe they were Mining and two years ago yeah in 19 ████ 20 there was like child labor yeah no yeah you see all those
14:26 black and white pictures of dusty ass white kids and yeah and coal mines and ████ but also the life expectancy was also kind of low I kind of liked y'all there a little bit I think it teaches them some values yeah get these kids to work yeah tell taika to start getting some Cobalt honestly if if anyone could benefit from child labor it's American Kids is before he does his course he has to put my shoes on he puts you puts you to do his chores like yeah he just I just like because a lot of his chores are outside I put this away uh feed the dog fill up the dog a lot of the outside stuff and so before he goes outside he always goes and puts my shoes on yeah I would do that with my Dad's shoes as a kid I think this is a kid thing I like
15:17 the idea if him mocking you like duh [Laughter] [Music] all right
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