No, child slaves on cocoa farms or mines aren't being exploited at all!
So you're blaming capitalism rather than uncivilized governments of these countries that fail to uphold basic human rights? Horrible take is horrible.
On average. What about the minimum?
I think you mean median - minimum is just arbitrarly set number. I cant find any median figure. Anyway the point is that Chinese aren't exactly poor.
You don't have electronics without them. Sorry, yes they do. Also, tariffs are only on the products coming in, not the raw resources used in the production.
You know what the funny thing is? That if there was no tarifs, there would be more demand for these goods and poduction would create more jobs with better salaries there. But EU has policy of protecting its internal market.
I'm from Poland. I was born around the time socialist system fell, and was replaced by capitalism.
Mistakes were made, hyperinflation destroyed all the wealth that remained in the early 90s, everyone was impoverished billionaire. Wherever you looked it was neverending gray desolation, broken, disfunctional infrastructure buliding falling apart and so on. But then government employed western economic advisors, budget has been balanced, money printing stopped, necessary reforms were made and over the next three decades Poland grew from a complete africa-like shithole into an european economic powerhouse.
Just to put it into number average monthly salary was like 100-200 USD equivalent in the 90s vs around 2000 USD now.
How can you dismiss achievement like this? You can't. You probably were never told about this in the first place. What you should ask yourself is why nobody talks about it?
Imagine this: In my country capitalism didn't fuck people. To the contrary, it provided them with wealth and prosperity previous generations could only envy
Nobody talks about dumping these things in the field. Glass, silicon, and aluminum can be reused or disposed safely. As I said in previous post - in EU electronic waste is disposed properly without dumping whole things into a landfill. Solar panels aren't even the hardest e-waste to deal with.
Capitalism is a shitty system. So many capitalist countries have horrible living conditions and/or have collapsed
You have no idea what are you talking about. I happen to be born in one of those post socialist countries, and had to grow up in the shit left after that failed system.
Do you know how did it fail? After USSR lost it's grip on the eastern Europe, the governments in these countries for the first time organized free, untampered elections, and the socialists system lost by the vote of the people in every single one of them. Everyone hated it, even the governments that were previously tasked by USSR to enforce it.
And you know what happened next? Decades of rebuilding of the broken economy, EU accesion, access to the common EU market, and the greatest wealth creation in the history of these republics.
Your argument is invalid.
Again, if socialism was doomed to failure none of this would be required
Are you joking? Do you know how many lives were ruined or lost before that cursed thing fell apart??? All the poverty all the repression, it's all fucked up, and you want this pathology to be tolerated around the world?
Some solar panels are considered hazardous waste, and some are not
That's horribly unspecific
Lead and cadmium
AFAIK in EU Leaded solder is forbidden since many years (outside of safety related equipment). Cadmium is regulated in similar fashion. Electronic equipment disposal and recycling is also strictly controlled.
As long as it's being held in magnetic confinement!