• ikt@aussie.zone
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    Waiting for OSM to replace google maps, unfortunately the tiling is more like a 1990’s car street map than a modern bing/google maps and there’s nothing I can find that replaces youtube for sheer volume of content

    Outside of that, Apple Iphone/Google android are about the only American things I still depend on

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    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.

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    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.

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      Meh, all those companies might have originated in Europe but are mostly US based with their same ethos too

      Plus the fast fashion companies are getting their arses handed to them by the EU. Zara, H&M etc all got a good slap recently

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        Same ethos? BP was worse when it was Anglo-Persian or just British Petroleum. Shell is very much European and one of the world’s most immoral companies. Siemens is as German as Samsung is Korean and just as corrupt.

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          Possibly you misunderstood

          US based with their same ethos

          Meaning they’re as fucking immoral and evil as US companies

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      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.

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    This is why we have the EU.

    For context, the EU has lots of competency in labor law. It’s a protection against dumping since free movement was introduced in the 1980s. There is the Charter of the Fundamental Social Rights 1989 and then a bunch of directives. Any EU directive automatically takes priority over national law.

    Some examples of well-known directives:

    The Safety and Health at Work Directive 1989 requires basic requirements to prevent and insure against workplace risks, with employee consultation and participation,[18] and this is complemented by specialised Directives

    The Working Time Directive 2003 requires a minimum of 4 weeks (totalling 28 days) paid holidays each year,[14] a minimum of 20-minute paid rest breaks for 6-hour work shifts, limits on night work or time spent on dangerous work,[15] and a maximum 48-hour working week unless a worker individually consents.[16]

    The Parental Leave Directive 2019 creates a bare minimum of four months of parental leave

    IMO any foreign companies are welcome to do business if they respect the law.