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The story, and other stories linked in some of the comments, concern terrible things that happen to people in poor countries involved in producing things for rich countries.

If those stories have not sufficiently depressed you, take a look at what happens to much of our stuff when we are done with it, and much of it ends up back in poor countries for salvage.

http://www.npr.org/2010/12/21/132204954/after-dump-what-happ...

http://news.discovery.com/tech/indias-poor-risk-slow-death-r...




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