DR Congo's faltering fight against illegal cobalt mines | AFP 

One of the truest statments ever spoken

I don't see any stealing

💯💯 dats real spill

My Brother... This this is one of the most powerful statements I have EVER heard 🙏

TRUU

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I need these people to dig this with their hands, so I can write this comment.

Yup! An influencers "truth".

Or just buy those things bc you like them. 👍

@@victorespino5650 why do you like them? feeling?

At least if they really get their 200 a week that's prob a normal salary out there..

I'm never driving an electric car, I now have a moral reason not to...

It's a good thing Trump & republicans gave all those tax cuts for the very rich, it'll soon trickle down to these miners.

Cruelty of Late-Stage Capitalism in full display. There's a problem when all companies care about is how to increase profit every year. I can't wait until all the boomers are gone, and we can have unions and social-democracy again.

@@nicolaskeroack7860 have you thought about their work conditions??? just try to think nlike its not a europe, not america,canada and etc. i think its a fckn hell, and people behind cameras wont tell us every detail that those people goes thrue every day

Yeah as if Glencore doesn't fucking pay for it

"oh nooooo we're sooooo sad you're using super cheap labor and giving us record profits oh wow we're devastated! Please stop at once, we're asking nicely!"

That fact that a Anglo-Swiss company is even allowed to own anything in a foreign country is insane. Globalism is what creates this BS.

I think its a win win everyone gets something, some more than others, funny if you introduce machines it could mean some get retrenched

Same reason why young girls being raped on the way to the US border. They have rape trees where they tied up the girls rape them and hang their panties on the tree. You see Xmas marks on the tree. Girls 10 years old are given birth control for the trip. The media shows us what corrupt governments want us to see. Question the narrative and you are censored and canceled labeled a racist.

Look at the skin of the ppl and your question will be answered

@@mr.tomorrow8228 so you're saying.. it's because they are black that black people are not giving them attention? or are you blaming another race for not giving it attention?

@@mr.tomorrow8228 that’s not a fair statement. Implying this rests on the shoulders of white people. These are black Africans brutalizing other black africans. If the Europeans maintained control of Africa the peoples lives would be better.

@MR.TOMORROW at least we changed the name of Washington's pro football team! Skin color? More like Americans are pissed that someone is driving a Mercedes Benz right now while they're stuck with the Honda. And if they were able to attain some wealth for themselves, they would never give a *flying fuck* about any of this noise again.

Because that would counter the narrative of all the "climate crusaders" and derail the nice stories and empty virtue signalling from the likes of Al Gore, Leonardo DiCaprio and Saint-Greta Of Thunberg. Easier to throw soup cans (while people are starving) at paintings or crazy-glue your hands at the Starbucks counter to protest whatever the fashionable thing of the moment is...

This is the slavery the Left doesn’t want you to see. Fossil fuels have nothing on the “Green Agenda”. Acquiring the raw materials is just the first step in a massive complex process of poisoning the planet. Refining this material, producing a product (solar panel, battery, etc), then disposing of the spent product after its lost its usefulness, which is only a few years mind you…..all are WAY more toxic to our environment than diesel, gasoline, propane, natural gas, coal, or cow farts. It’s mind bending how gullible people are.

Maybe Trump can support it and then Democrats will lose their minds an talk about it non-stop for 4 years

Did we watch the same video? These people make ten or twenty times more than what their compatriots live on

@@Zabuzakashi yeah the most vile thing about this video is that these people are mining illegally 🤣if we want to be mad at someone we should rage against these illegal mines

Same everything I've seen said they make less than $2 dollars a day.

Lol where did you hear that. They most definitely can make a couple hundred a week

@@lukewilliams9428 the white guy saying the blacks make more than enough being slaves, working in shit conditions. It’s almost biblical in nature 😂

@@lukewilliams9428 have you been?

@@lukewilliams9428 look up joe rogan cobalt mines. he had a dude who went out there to the congo and talked with the workers/ modern day slaves

00:17 peep the guy on the right he is dancing

Haaaaaa😂

It's unfortunate how ignorant a human can be thinking its okay to refer to Congolese natives as 'they/them'. Fucking embarrassing.

@@favray 🤣🤣🤣

Establishing technology that would allow to do it is immense task to do, you should be grateful for what you have in your country.

They don't even know those are their minerals which corporations in the West are robbing them.

Honest people trying to make a buck.

The human rights is bullshit!

If Cobalt was discovered in USA, the mining would be done in a much better way with proper safety and salary Because In a capitalist nation there is more & more companies = High demand of employees When there is high demand for employees no employees will work in a dangerous situation without proper salary & safety measures Congo was continuously ruled by communist for 23 years It's not about iPhones or electric cars it's about supply chain Communisn = unemployment = What you just see

Tell me you're American without saying you're American 😂

Where have you been in the last 40 years? Oh yea, calling a communist everybody who ever said big corporations were keeping Africa enslaved, and pointing out how little colonialism has to do with any of this... Stfu

Love You Brother !Praise be God The Son,God The Father and Holly Ghost 🙏♥

Just stop with the whole ancestral regurgitated crap! People labouring themselves to death don’t need your blessing so that you can have an iPhone and a electric car…They need it to stop NOW!

Pray to to your god directly to him not here in youtube comment.

They are being enslaved by the same people that sold Black Americans to the Europeans.

The difference is these miners are getting paid. Not very much,but more than slaves who get nothing

As you use your device to tell them

@@massatube on a 3rd hand phone that was in a drawer doing jack shit

@@dobomatter So you're innocent of using any electronics? (Except your jack-shit phone)

I invited you to go and experience that work and after t That you will have a decision

People are dancing and cheering in the video. I'd say they're better off.

There is no education here. That dream exists only in more developed countries

Not only in America, it was also the case all over Europe. Unfortunately, they don't learn that at school. My father once told me that my step-grandfather on my mother's side was 11 years old when he had to work in the mine. It was something before the first world war in Pécs (Hu).

@@edmundorivera7450 don't get me wrong, it's 100% a bad situation, but the alternative is "starves to death" or "starves to death next drought. It's not like a developed nation where we think houses that don't have hot water should be condemned and knocked down. It's not a good situation I agree but neither is any other portion of life in that area.

3.8 K views on this video

Yes

same

Same. I I'm just listening to his newest podcast of human trafficking

Same here. I saw his clip with an expert on the topic.

Same. This is tragic.

It’s actually a child

that's a child

No cap 😂

He ruined the entire vibe of a dangerous and unhappy mine the video creator was trying to get across 😂😂👌🏼

@@dragonIady did you check his I.D?? Maybe he identifies as an elderly man… this is 2022 lol

Chinese billionaires. The Chinese Uighurs work for free and there are millions of slave laborers in China.

Just more government propoganda

Capitalism is death

Sheer ignorance!

Why not the female workers?

These guys are mining toxic elements with their hands, no PPE, and all of these companies claim that no artisanal miners are in their mines, only industrial grades. Just take another look at all the kids and people with no shoes or flip flops, no masks, and only hand tools

Nice! Then they will lose their 200 dollars / weekend and go back to under 2 dollars a day. How thoughtful of you

Most ppl in the comment section are not in Africa and don't get that bringing machinery will not cause justice but only cause many families to die of hunger as $200 per week in under development countries is very durable

If we recycle and dont buy new ores, these people would have it worse.

What about when the ore runs out

@@kakazu50 Lol what do you mean they will lose their 200 dollars? They should be charging the west and china way more! Congo produces the majority of cobalt, they control the supply. If you want cobalt you better start paying a fair price for it. Also you should be ashamed of yourself, you want child slavery to stay intact for a measily 200 dollars? Sickening.

Because he doesn’t know he’s inhaling fumes that can give him cancer

He’s probably high as hell

@@Ma1q444 He is probably gonna die long before cancer gets him anyway.

@@Ma1q444 Says who? Seems awfully assumptive.

​@@AerialEscape If Cobalt was discovered in USA, the mining would be done in a much better way with proper safety and dignity Because In a capitalist nation there is more & more companies = High demand of employees When there is high demand for employees no employees will work in a dangerous situation without proper salary & safety measures It's not about iPhones or electric cars it's about supply chain Congo was continuously ruled by communist for 23 years Communisn = unemployment = What you just see

These are artisan miners bro, read! Also labor in Americas was great educated labor!

If that is your only option how to earn some money...

😂😂😂 forced labour

Doesn't mean they're dancing that it justifies their pay or magically makes it safe to work in toxic dust all day

That’s the spirit(mindset) “they” want you to have.

@@dropheaven849 you mean not believing either side is telling the truth?

Yes they are dancing 💃 end of story u can now go to bed and have a good night sleep

@@topsonmikka2984 you are a chatbot

If Cobalt was discovered in USA, the mining would be done in a much better way with proper safety and salary Because In a capitalist nation there is more & more companies = High demand of employees When there is high demand for employees no employees will work in a dangerous situation without proper salary & safety measures It's not about iPhones or electric cars it's about supply chain Congo was continuously ruled by communist for 23 years Communisn = unemployment = What you just see

Stop buying into the bullshit of electric cars being greener and you don't need a new phone every year

stop using electrical appliances with rechargeable batteries?

in reality,nothing unless you wanna change the way the world works from its roots

I'm guessing you're the type of people that want to shut this down, and leave these people starving. This is their shot at making some money and building a brighter future.

What about let them work and build schools for the children increase their wages

Said like a true colonizer or slave master!

did he have gloves on his hand when he held up that nugget?

Children and teenagers forced to do it.

Most people here hate the economic progress of developing countries and prefer they starve rather than work to better their lives.

cobalt is toxic and carcinogenic

This. The first sane comment under this video

I blame this on the leaders of this country .

@@afortheloveofjesus3109 obvious troll or bot.

Poor and uneducated just because they don’t speak your language?

They don’t compensate anyone for getting killed or injured on the job. There is no safety standards and most people will end up getting cancer from breathing in toxic dust. And it’s not just men doing this work it’s also teens and kids. They live off child labor to make a profit.

But I guess if they pay you two dollars more a day it makes it easier for you to drive your Tesla and watching RU-vid on your iPhone without any guilt.

boat to europe.

it seams like you nned too wake up.

Most of the time they don’t want equipment for work because a lot of guys gonna loose their job’s.

they are being exploited the chinese own all the mines in the congo. they are making billions while abusing these workers with no masks, boots and vehicles. they also get 1 dollar a day instead of 50 dollars. the congo president is corrupt how can you sell mines to make yourself rich but not your country. My friend lives in the congo his brother earns 1 to 2 dollars a day and suffer from health issues.

Put your phone away Justin. Then you can complain 😅

@@RealAmericanStar I was specifically speaking on Ev goofy. When and anytime they can produce a kobalt free phone I'm in.

@@justinpaul8160 just as I thought. Too addicted to your phone to stand on business. 🤡

@@RealAmericanStar what? 😆

Probably not. But would be supplied hookers and alcohol

No nice salary is worth cancer you do know theyre breathing in fumes that cause it right???

they get a hole 1 meter deep and wide to stay in

Why are they mining it then? It’s going to first world countries for whatever reason and it’s wrong

​@@Normie2388 If Cobalt was discovered in USA, the mining would be done in a much better way with proper safety and salary Because In a capitalist nation there is more & more companies = High demand of employees When there is high demand for employees no employees will work in a dangerous situation without proper salary & safety measures Congo was continuously ruled by communist for 23 years It's not about iPhones or electric cars it's about supply chain Communisn = unemployment = What you just see

they are being exploited the chinese own all the mines in the congo. they are making billions while abusing these workers with no masks, boots and vehicles. they also get 1 dollar a day instead of 50 dollars. the congo president is corrupt how can you sell mines to make yourself rich but not your country.

I mean, they seem happier than I am at my current job.

You buy it.

Af

I know. Could you imagine being around that many? Imagine the smell lol

If Cobalt was discovered in USA, the mining would be done in a much better way with proper safety and salary Because In a capitalist nation there is more & more companies = High demand of employees When there is high demand for employees no employees will work in a dangerous situation without proper salary & safety measures Congo was continuously ruled by communist for 23 years It's not about iPhones or electric cars it's about supply chain Communisn = unemployment = What you just see

They DON'T make 200 a day. 🤦🏼‍♀️

$100-$200 a week is still a lot of money

they are being exploited the chinese own all the mines in the congo. they are making billions while abusing these workers with no masks, boots and vehicles. they also get 1 dollar a day instead of 50 dollars. the congo president is corrupt how can you sell mines to make yourself rich but not your country. My friend lives in the congo his brother earns 1 to 2 dollars a day and suffer from health issues.

Not true

​@@oliviamaynard9372 If Cobalt was discovered in USA, the mining would be done in a much better way with proper safety and dignity Because In a capitalist nation there is more & more companies = High demand of employees When there is high demand for employees no employees will work in a dangerous situation without proper salary & safety measures It's not about iPhones or electric cars it's about supply chain Congo was continuously ruled by communist for 23 years Communisn = unemployment = What you just see

😅😂

You sound like that kid at school who made comments to deliberately upset people. Kids are being tortured and killed for cobalt. That is one of the primary issues.

@@lilsebastian2625 that was an irony I guess

I don't know in what context are you saying above, even after watching this, man I have to may be even tell you that, no matter how much old you are Or, what kind of life you have lived, I am sorry to this this but it has failed. Man to be ignorant to what you watch and what you type in understanding of that just baffles me. man Ignorance is bliss, when you don't know it you don't care and when you do know about it you still don't care. and type this kind of words. I don't reply to anyones coment, stoicism, but hey after knowing why they were doing what they were doing, and for what purpose they were doing, your words hurts me like nothing else. Man it's heart wrenching, mind boggling to think that in some part of the world there are one part of humans thinking about going to other planets and past and galaxies and all that knowledge about the the world we can see, then there is another where you will see unrecorded and unbelievable discoveries in a field which doesn't really exist that is consciousness and then there is this where people without regard to there life are working in Hellish condition for their lives. Such contrast... It's like difference between heaven and earth. I don't know what ways are there to uplift these people and what will be the Consequences of that but I have no idea who will prevail between these two ends, who will pass the test of time and laws of the nature. I know I am blabbering but, hey man, please know before saying something.

Are you being sarcastic ?

they die early deaths bc its not the proper way too mine lol they also get paid 1$ a day usually not 200 a week.

and in yours

they are being exploited the chinese own all the mines in the congo. they are making billions while abusing these workers with no masks, boots and vehicles. they also get 1 dollar a day instead of 50 dollars. the congo president is corrupt how can you sell mines to make yourself rich but not your country. My friend lives in the congo his brother earns 1 to 2 dollars a day and suffer from health issues.

they make 1 dollar a day and this is misinformation. the chinese own all the mines in congo and they make billions while the congo has nothing but scraps

They don’t. It’s a lie. They make 2 dollars a day on a good day.

@@Good_at_clips they wouldn't be there if they weren't making $.

I would pay good money to throw in those mines for a few months and see if you're tune changes. You can also enjoy the annihilated vista's while you're there. I'll pay business class prick.

@@leihtory7423 they don’t have any options.

it's a tough situation to fix. Realistically they should be getting paid more. However, that would lead to the companies prob moving to using equipment and fewer people so less of them would have jobs. They could pay them more but than that would cause the prices to skyrocket for the rest of the world if they keep the same amount of ppl. I think the happy medium would be to let them continue to do it if $200 in their country is worth a lot of money BUT the companies should making the working environment 100% safe for the workers. Pretty sure this stuff is toxic.

@@corallium22 But you don't see these thousands of workers living in houses similar to that of people in first world countries making the roughly $350000 you say they are making (relative to their local economy)

@@jaredsmith7240 how do you know what houses they live in? Their housing is not discussed or even shown in this video

@@wowo3730 you can do a lot more research on a topic than watching a single video my friend

@@wowo3730 How do you have access to the internet and not realise how retarded your comment was?

That's rough buddy. How much toxic potato gas did you inhale?

@@Pendrokar let's not out shitty experience each other. What work were you doing at 11 years old? The people in the mines choose to be there because of the pay. You want the mine to buy 5 tractors for 3 million (which all goes out of country to a tractor company) and only employ 5 workers, or do you think the thousand of workers would rather have the chance to work ? Many of them came hundreds or thousands of miles to get the chance to work there.

@trekinseattle or maybe he, I don’t know, wants them to provide basic safety equipment and pay something like $10 a day rather than $2 so they can afford to provide for their children and not have to have them work also… probably costs too much for the millions they make from the mines though right?

Brain dead

@έτσι το σκατό να ρέει yeah they're choosing the lesser evil.. its still horrible but at least they're getting good money now (at least i hope they do). Not that long ago they were just slaves for free.

Ain't gonna lie. 90% of them n would be without a job if the mining was done in av professional way.

sounds like us americans with tiktok youtube and mcdonalds.

@@shawnh9677 lol

Sit there and think about what you just said.

@@jada7378 I know exactly what I said. When this is someone’s normality and/or the best chance of earning a living, they have every right to be happy. It’s easy to look at it from my perspective living in a first world country and feel like it’s terrible working conditions but in a lot of African countries this is standard type working conditions/roles. I think you’re trying to turn my original comment into something more than it is. If that’s all that they know, they’re making the best out of a bad situation. Their government is the real problem, most African countries should be economically well off due to the large amounts of natural resources. But they’re extremely corrupt and violent towards their own citizens. Try again 😉 I’m not the one.

@@VLXVNDR Yeah it’s all the governments fault, and not the first world billion dollar multinational corporations that directly profit from ruthlessly taking advantage of people. It also surely isn’t the fact that you probably typed that comment on device that was almost certainly mined in an illegal manner, and assembled by impoverished hands in a south Easter Asian country. Yeah, so lucky they are to toil for around a dollar a day so you can get the latest iPhone, and maybe a self driving car! Ooh shiny! But look guys they’re smiling and dancing right! My people also sung in the cotton and tobacco fields. That doesn’t mean they loved being there. Really “I’m not the one”? Real 💅💅 energy

@@jada7378 I never said I wasn’t benefiting from their hardship. My phone and many modern products I use are most certainly results of theirs and similar peoples hard physical labour and exploitation. Governments are multinational corporations, the role of a government is to make their particular country profitable and the people’s happiness is waaaaaaay down the list of priorities. If you think otherwise you’re sadly misled friend. This honestly isn’t a dig at you personally, there’s absolutely no need to argue with eachother. I’m agreeing with you. Governments are just a big business, and alot of multinational companies are wealthier that most countries so you can imagine the power and influence they have. Corruption is rife. My original comment was just referring to this particular video, it’s purpose I think was to show how bad this mining is but the irony was that they all mostly seemed to be smiling and happy. The young kid dancing at the beginning didn’t help the video creators angle 😂

They have job security, food, shelter, medical care, and they're not in the jungle being killed by tribal warfare/civil war like they otherwise would be.

The thing is that hammer jack cost thousands while they can hire a thousand of these guys for $1-$3 a day. There’s a reason they have 10,000+ people there. They don’t pay them anywhere near how much they would have spent on machinery

It's slave wages

​@@RockSmith-rl9qr If Cobalt was discovered in USA, the mining would be done in a much better way with proper safety and salary Because In a capitalist nation there is more & more companies = High demand of employees When there is high demand for employees no employees will work in a dangerous situation without proper salary & safety measures Congo was continuously ruled by communist for 23 years It's not about iPhones or electric cars it's about supply chain Communisn = unemployment = What you just see

So? Slaves sang songs all day. Does that make it right?

What kind of thought process is this?

@@ardaduck735 I don't think ignorant racists like this have a thought process! The freak casually refers to the Congolese as They/them. 😔😔

Please tell me you are not a voter or in management?

You will see the light eventually don’t worry we’re all praying for you

He was exposing the dark side of the industry.

Jews in nazi Auschwitz maybe also had one laugh a day doest mean it was healthy of well paid.

they are being exploited the chinese own all the mines in the congo. they are making billions while abusing these workers with no masks, boots and vehicles. they also get 1 dollar a day instead of 50 dollars. the congo president is corrupt how can you sell mines to make yourself rich but not your country.

they are being exploited the chinese own all the mines in the congo. they are making billions while abusing these workers with no masks, boots and vehicles. they also get 1 dollar a day instead of 50 dollars. the congo president is corrupt how can you sell mines to make yourself rich but not your country. My friend lives in the congo his brother earns 1 to 2 dollars a day and suffer from health issues.

Yeah they are probably happy the tunnel they were in that day didn't collapse and bury them alive.

they are being exploited the chinese own all the mines in the congo. they are making billions while abusing these workers with no masks, boots and vehicles. they also get 1 dollar a day instead of 50 dollars. the congo president is corrupt how can you sell mines to make yourself rich but not your country. My friend lives in the congo his brother earns 1 to 2 dollars a day and suffer from health issues.