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Roger Tauss's avatar

For all its faults, all is not lost if the internet can still make such analyses available.

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antoinette.uiterdijk's avatar

We know this, we knew this. The story is being told over and over. And yet all stays the same for farmers of coffee, cacao, bananas, etc. We, the consumers in the "developed world", are addicted to low prices. For food and also for clothing. And the stockholders of big co.'s want their dividends.

So the farmers farm till the very end. Then they pack up and go to the big cities. Where there is no work for all the newcomers. They live in deplorable conditions. Young men leave and try to get to elsewhere: the US, Europe. They are the immigrants that are not welcome. They have problems and in some cases they are a problem. Usually those who already have a hard life pay a (too) high price.

On the other hand there are many success-stories when it comes to immigrants - enriching the country they moved to.

It would be so much better for all, and so much cheaper in the end, if we paid a bit more for what we consume. People should not be forced to leave their family, their country. They should not be traveling in overcrowded boats, risking their lives, trying to reach a better country.

It would be so much better if we spent our money on Earth and better the conditions of our fellow-inhabitants.

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