>>The fact that so many 1%ers are too stupid to see what their greed is going to cause, just confirms that these people aren't even all that smart or deserving.
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>Likewise, anyone that buys an iPhone knowing that it funds human exploitation can't be all that smart or deserving either.

Depends on the alternative.


A while ago, a certain company in Asia was forced not to use children for the production of fashion products.
The result was that all the children got unemployed and left their families with another mouth to feed. Many of them eventually ended up in prostitution.

In order to solve big world problems you'll have to take your western glasses off. Most often the problems are rooted in culture and poverty. you cannot solve those problems by fighting the symptoms, you'll have to fight the root.

In the case of human exploitation of iPhone manufacturing, it is clearly a symptom, not the root of the problem.