Temu needs to be banned

[u/TheChickenWizard15]

I've recently been down a rabbit hole on China's grip on the US market, and while I've never installed temu, I will now never purposefully download it. Not only is it a data-harvesting scam meant to get people addicted to "shopping like a billionare" but they've all but admitted to using slave labor, and have somehow been able to get away with exporting millions of products made in concentration camps thus far. I've already made my mom and uncle uninstall it, and I hope that lawmakers are able to get it banned soon

Edit: Christ on a bike, this really blew up didn't it. Alrighty, I'd like to make a couple statements:

1: I'm against buying cheap, imported products that support the CCP in general, not just from temu. I brought up temu since it's one of the main sites that's exploding in popularity, but every other similar e-commerce platform like Alibaba, Wish, Amazon, etc. are equally terrible when it comes to exploiting slave labor and sending U.S money to China, so temu definitely isn't the only culprit here.

2: I do try to shop u.s/non chinese made most of the time, though obviously it's really hard with so many Chinese products flooding the market. It gets especially difficult to find electronics, dishes/ceramics, and plastic things not made in some Chinese sweatshop. However, voting with your wallet is really the only way to try and oppose this kind of buisiness, so asides from not shopping on temu, just try to avoid "made in China" in general.

3: yes, I'm also aware that China isn't the only culprit for exploiting slave and child labor, and that many other overseas and U.S based operations get away with less than optimal working conditions and exploit others for cheap labor. At this point, it's just as difficult if not harder to tell if something was made using unethical methods, and it's really just a product of an already corrupt hypercapitalist system that prioritizes profit over human well-being.

One of the values I try to live by is "the richest man isn't the one who has the most, but needs the least". In short, I simply try not to buy things when I don't need them. I know this philosophy isn't for everyone, but consumerism mindsets are unhealthy at best, and dangerous at worst. I really don't want to support any corrupt systems if I have the choice not to, so when I don't absolutley need some fancy gizmo or cheap product, I simply don't buy it.

Edit 2: also, to al the schmucks praising China and the ccp, you're part of the problem and an enemy to the future of democracy itself

[u/oldstonedspeedster]

It's actually a great business model when you can charge the fucking state that the prison is in if the beds aren't full enough and then you get the ship to prisoners out to work at billion dollar corporations for a dollar a fucking day