And what else, pray tell, would they be doing, and how much would they be earning doing it, if they weren’t making $2 a day mining cobalt?
Are you really trying to justify this? What, do you have tesla and an iPhone and well, someones gotta pay for your luxuries, right?
I think he is saying that if not for cobalt they would starve to death. But cobalt is poisonous and will also kill them. It is a lose-lose, only the privileged win...
But get ready for the “So what... They are inferior 3rd world trash anyhow” crowd to show up here.