How Many Slaves Work For You?

28. And mostly because I only eat a very limited variety of foods.

Well, it's not like anything's going to change in the foreseeable future, regardless of how many people join one movement or another. These movements all make it sound like things can change right now when in reality, it often take years or decades if at all. No amount of appealing to remorse or encouraging people to make different choices will change that.

There is a "continue" link just to the right of the iPad graphic. Click it.

It doesn't do anything.

And I'm not quite sure if there are choices in the first place. After all, if the natural resources for vital goods are mined/harvested unethically is there a way to avoid it in the first place?

The only way this can work is to fix the problems of unethical treatment of workers in the first place.

Same here. Eventually I just caved in and grabbed an iPad.

No one can beat 68 slaves? I guess I win the thread .

Though I didn't know that computers and other electronics (besides DV Ds and their players) didn't factor in. I thought that's what made my count so high. I guess it's just my clothes and DV Ds... way too many clothes and DV Ds. And seafood.

^ Ira The Square had over a hundred on the last thread page.

I lied to most of the question to get that though.

The real one I got something like 26-34, depending on whether the DVD player that my mum owns counts as mine.

Oh, of course, one of those tests...

Anyways, I have 22. That I have a limited number of electronics (as in one desktop computer (with which to work and game), one netbook, one cellphone, one old CD player, one MP 3 player, no consoles or DVD players, etc) and clothes (as in "just enough" to last me a couple weeks without washing) kinda helps I guess. But footprint tests these days... -sigh- Yes, I know that the problem exists, it hasn't been acknowledged that much and something's gotta be done about this problem, but...

The site is just a pain in the arse to get to work on Chrome beyond the first page...

edited 31st Jan '13 4:53:57 PM by EarlOfSandvich

28 after firing up IE. However, I apparently misclicked on conditioner instead of shampoo. So it's possible I cause more, or less, slavery.

I got 25. Apparently, Games consoles add alot. I guess due to the components that make them up?

My electronic gadgets are cellphone, desktop computer and my parents TV and DVD player if those count. The only seafood I eat at all, and is on the list is salmon (Norwegian). I don't own a car, and both my clothing and "medicine cabinet" (kind of misleading: the closest thing to medicine in it is shampoo) are very limited.

Even with a child I only got 20.

But even then I wonder how accurate it is since I make a lot of my own household products, clothes for my son, and what not. I don't buy most anything really and when I do it's more local than something that's imported. I guess living in poverty helps fight indentured servitude.

I agree with De Marquis that the best answer to all of this is to just support international charities that help to promote stable conditions and not just treat the symptoms. I'm a huge fan of Habitat for Humanity and Heifer Project because they try to help in making people self sustaining and the community stronger, not just giving them a momentary food box and say go on.

I also am a big fan of DIY, gardening, recycling, and what not simply because it's the only way I can afford to live easier, but because it's just fun for me. I guess buying material is still causing slave labor, but you have to pick your poison in the end. I still have to clothe my son so if I can buy a few yards of fabric made in America (even with the huge slavery mark on our coast) than Asian imports which are epidemic, I'm doing something better.

edited 26th Nov '12 11:53:23 AM by Gabrael

Yeah, if I could get it to work, I don't know how accurate it would be for me either, considering that a lot of the food I eat is local, and I do a lot of DIY stuff.

I had to download Mozilla and even then I had to fight with the itemized menu thingy on the side.

It kept resetting and adding just outrageous numbers.

Maybe it just seemed outrageous because I don't consume near as much as my national average or whatever. I just couldn't believe some of their pre-programmed numbers.

The clothing part is unbelievable. Who on earth would have 50 pieces of underwear, pants, shirts, suits, shoes and socks? How the heck is that the default?

... I do. I have at least fifty underpants and fifty pairs of socks.

I'm guessing some people just accumulate clothes. I probably have dozens of pairs of socks, but I usually only wear 10 or so pairs.

I probably have way more than that.

Yes, that is the thing. If you accumulate clothes, it counts higher than if you get rid of clothes every season, even though the person who accumulates clothes might actually be buying fewer things.

I'm gonna call the validity of this quiz into question. To me it seems like one of those animal rescue commercials where they emotionally blackmail you into stuff through skewed statistics and sad music.

As for how much slavery I employ, don't know and don't particularly care.

^ That's because you're now a slave to the military-industrial complex yourself, you mindless myrmidon.

Then why is my bourbon glass empty, is what I want to know.

36, though that does include a car which isn't actually mine. (It's my parents but I drive it sometimes and learned to drive in it).

At this point I'm afraid to buy anything that's metal. And this was before I took that survey.

edited 27th Nov '12 6:23:34 PM by GameChainsaw

15. Because of Conditionner I don`t own and told the survey I dont own but it insists I got conditionner so who am I to argue.

edited 28th Nov '12 6:56:05 AM by CobraPrime

41 slaves? They must be lazy bastards because I sure don't feel like someone who owns 41 slaves.

This does raise the question of why we're paying so much for sneakers if they're being made by little slave kids. What are their overheads?