Whoever came up with this meme has never heard of BP, Shell, Eni, Siemens, Spotify or the numerous European fast fashion companies that depend on sweat shop labor to survive.
Spotify
sweat shop labor to survive
wtf
Spotify is fiercely anti union
that’s not sweat shop labour though ?
Nestlé is European
Nestle is currently lobbying the Commission to not dilute the supply chain act. Yes, I also had to do a double take when first reading that.
Which goes against the lobbying of associations of smaller companies whom, largely, the thing doesn’t even (yet) apply to because they’re not big enough.
Not really defending them they’re all too big to exist but their business interests do seem to be aligned with doing the right thing, for once. Tough to sell stuff to Africa when you’re accused of slavery and I bet they’re sick and tired of lawsuits, those will be much easier to defend against when they have extensive reporting, protocols of inspections, etc. Also the profit they’re making off slavery is probably marginal anyway, the local slavers are going to sell to Nestle etc. for marginally below non-slavery costs and pocket the difference.
Token gestures mean nothing when every other action is utterly horrible.
OK, the EU is more like chaotic good.
It’s not a federation.
No universal minimal wage, so we have “rich” and “poor” countries.
It’s isn’t a socialist state, more like neoliberal.But we have good-ish regulations. Often delayed.
i wouldnt want it to be a socialist state either
