• Michael@slrpnk.net
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    4 days ago

    name one bad thing about it.

    Okay, the wages and working conditions of plantation workers (modern slaves). The cost of bananas in first-world countries is ridiculously low, and is demeaning to those who work hard to enable this privilege for us.

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      4 days ago

      Exactly. The post calls them being cheap a good thing, but when you know about the slave wages, idk if them being this cheap is that much of a positive.

      A lot of people just know that one song from the Beetlejuice movie, but it’s about the workers in banana plantations:
      “Come Mr. tally man! Tally me banana.
      Daylight come and me wanna go home.

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      4 days ago

      and is demeaning to those who work hard to enable this privilege for us.

      For real! Keeping countries colonised in this day and age is hard work