you just dont understand the fine points of politics old bean, let me lay it out for the proles. its very simple, in order to keep the economy stable and maintain the wealth gap we have to gobble big bussiness dicks all day, slurping up penis encourages bussiness in the UK wich on the odd ocation we decide to tax we can fund our wars and colonial recourse obtainment. So yes the country is fucked but our blood soaked mineral deals from the Democratic Republic of Congo make it possible for us to have our fancy phones and laptops sooo fuck it as long as i can have a wank then stick a film on we are all good
Tell me oh wonderous master - how do UK politicians control the actions of multinational companies who commit what I totally agree to be evil deals for minerals in other nations?
I'm not disagreeing with the fact - but YOU quite evidently don't understand how these multinationals work. It's all part of the tax evasion I mentioned but they go through multiple shelll companies, trusts and foundations scattered around the globe.
Arms are a lucrative trade for the UK and they quite often do exactly as described above.
They only need plausible deniability because if it isn't actually happening IN the UK, while the Commons 'ethics committee' (hollow laugh) is supposed to catch such things, it gets kind of shaky even IF well intended.
BTW don't have car, fancy phone or indeed anything much. That's the problem with massive generalizations - you assume everyone to be the same. So it's not like I was unaware, I just made the, in retrospect wrong assumption that we all KNOW all this already so that's on me.
Al though technically a US based company, look at Apple. All EU sales had profits funneled through was was termed 'Dutch sandwich' and when that loophole was closed, they swapped to 'double Irish'. I use that example merely because it's the most famous one, but they all do it. In the arms trage staging, forged end user certificates and geopolitics all confuse things still more. Nation has a coup and new dictator sells inventory.
Of course, we could simply ban weapons production. I'm sure it wouldn't concern atms manufacturers too much - IF there is a customer, there woll ALWAYS be a supplier.
THis is a HR site but a large percentate of the UK public would think our actions immoral. But if people are using, someones producing. So arms and minerals are more multinational that specific to one nation. Which I would suggest is outside the remit of the original question.
Or have you found a 'Fare Trade' source of drugs?
I'm reminded of the George Carlin joke where he asks 'Have you ever noticed anyone driving slower than you as an idiota nd everyone driving faster than you is a maniac?' - That, my friend, is moral relatavism 101. I expect everyone is somewhere on that sliding scale. Every product and service is on that sliding scale.
