• macnielEnglish
    11•14 days ago

    Mhm I dunno, I rather enjoy my chocolate and coffee and what not being slavery free.

  • @[email protected]English
    9•13 days ago

    Bruh, “stopping” slavery in the us was also deemed a burden for cotton businesses.

    What a shit argument: yes if your business relies on preying on either humans or the environment it should be difficult to continue business as usual; yes that is exactly the point. If you can’t proof that that’s not the case then you can’t possibly know for sure that it’s not. Yes that is exactly the point.

    Dumb neoliberal ignorant fucks. (Goes out also also to my dudes in German politics fucking with this: fuck all’a’yall!)

    • iktEnglish
      -1•13 days ago

      Bruh, “stopping” slavery in the us was also deemed a burden for cotton businesses.

      And it was the USA along with Britain (and Europe) that stopped it within their own countries, is Africa incapable of doing the same hundreds of years after others? If not should we recolonise them so we can implement basic human rights in Africa in 2025? :))

      The problem right now is that the EU has too much regulation and it is stagnating, specifically compliance costs have grown massively:

      The costs of the expanding compliance burden are enormous. In Denmark the number of applicable regulations, both Danish and European, for the average firm rose by 63% from 2001 to 2023.5 For the chemical industry, annual compliance costs for small and medium enterprises have almost doubled in 10 years from €332.500 in 2014 to €577.000 in 2023.6 To this cost we must add GDPR compliance, at €500.000 for SMEs to €10m for large organisations.7

      The stunning thing is that all this European legislation does not replace national legislation! This duplication, according to the Draghi report, costs another €200bn per year due to complex procedures, excessive national requirements and unharmonized labelling standards.8

      https://www.siliconcontinent.com/p/the-compliance-doom-loop

      You would prefer EU companies to go broke investigating and trying to solve a problem that doesn’t exist in 99.9% of EU companies, it’s just more paperwork that needs filling out to satisfy the paper gods…

      It’s ridiculous! Why is it that the EU has to have its companies go through and search through its supply chains all over the world to find irregularities and report on them and no one else does? Maybe if the EU was in #1 position and everyone had spare money and time to throw around sure but right now the EU needs less compliance burden and more freedom to fight against the big boys of China and USA

      fuck all’a’yall

      Why are you typing like an American 🤮 Please stop it’s embarrassing

      • federal reverseMEnglish
        1•12 days ago

        And it was the USA along with Britain (and Europe) that stopped it within their own countries, is Africa incapable of doing the same hundreds of years after others?

        You may find that most Africans states are not all that old and you may also find that there are postcolonial relationships between EU and African countries. As in, we’re still sucking these countries dry and aren’t providing all that much in return.

        Why is it that the EU has to have its companies go through and search through its supply chains all over the world to find irregularities and report on them and no one else does?

        Yikes. Because we subscribe to certain values, such as the declaration of human rights. Possibly also because global inequalities create massive migration streams.

        • iktEnglish
          0•11 days ago

          Because we subscribe to certain values, such as the declaration of human rights.

          and no one else does? just Europe?

          • federal reverseMEnglish
            1•11 days ago

            Mostly, it seems. The UK is no longer part of the EU and it was the first to prescribe companies create a Anti-Slavery Policy (afaik, that law is toothless though).

            I don’t think whether the EU is the only (or just the first!) bloc to enact a supply-chain transparency law is an argument against such a law at all though. Especially given the connectedness and trade power of the EU, such a law can do a great deal, even if it is enacted only in this part of the world.