Wow!! What about the huge cybersecurity crash from yesterday? Perhaps we are too dependent on technology . I get a notice every few months about a security breach, such as a bank, credit card, an app I was forced to download to obtain tickets for an event. I've been around for nearly 60 years and somehow we all were able to survive without cell phones and the internet. It's a bit frightening and sad.
@@gigi9301 yep we're very much..... dependent on technology. Funny though way older generations would argue they weren't. My argument? The rotary phone....was that not technology? Was it not seen as....( root word ) technical? The way gears and pins were somehow able to send combinations ( phone number ) throughout the phone to generate the signal that made the phone call? 😏
Agreed. I can't believe this video doesn't have millions of views it really should. People make fun of me for having a five year old I phone and my laptop here is a 2013 macbook air ; my car is ten. If it's not broken, why fix or replace it? I could afford to do so, yet I choose not to . RIP mom you were a cheapskate but I sure learned a lot from you.
Watching this eye opening documentary on a smartphone and as the clip starts talking about the terrible working conditions in Samsung factories around the world, an ad from Samsung comes on. This is sad but kudos to the journalist and the team for this bravery and hardwork! Stay safe!
@@hugokeys602absolutely not!! None of us ain't going to do jack. And it's the same thing with EVs, renewal energy, etc. We are all fighting to see who can pretend to care the most.
Of course not the point is to make these heartless companies invest more and to do better by the human elements of their companies. They will answer to God in the end. "Vengeance is mine sayeth the Lord ".@@hugokeys602
I can keep an android working for 10 years, or even longer, but iphones? Not possible, you can't use it today anymore. Android can be unlocked and flash newer firmwares on to it to keep it up to date, let's say the s10, perfectly capable, but left behind by samsung, no more support, well, unlock bootloader, flash many of the custom roms offered by the community, and off you go, latest android and it didn't cost you a thing! iPhones, once apple says that this device get's no more support, it is over, no unlocking anything to flash newer firmwares. So, in fact, apple iphones are more wasteful than android devices.
@@bramvandenbroeck5060What in the world you are talking about?. I know many that have opposite experience, including myself and that is not the point. All those companies Samsung, Apple etc are responsible and should be penalized for it
...and you like give an f? Come on... If telling that to yourself what makes you feel better and make it easier for you to go to sleep go for it but stop acting as some saint etc. shut the hell up and go play further on your phone.
' buy only when you need it ' will never....be a thing. Do we need, a new smartphone every year? Most of us still replace our smartphone even within SIX MONTHS while kids suffer in factories to meet our.....WANTS.
Speaking as a 12 year Communication Tech. We are under paid aswell. Not nearly as bad as these people. This is horrible treatment and abuse. I feel bad for these workers. They deserve much better. I can say the same with being a prospector myself.This is atrocious.
You saying this is pointless. If that’s the case, let’s talk about BILLIONS of people who are overworked and underpaid. Your comment comes off as insensitive and ignorant as you clearly don’t get the bigger picture. These people are lured into work and otherwise exploitation by false promises of a better life and sustainable wages.
The current AI development is also heabily Dependance on underpais workers sortiert through violent and other forbidden content. Without counseling or treatment
@@magiwarwolf1 there could still be a failure of policy, as well, if the goals of the policy have inadequate procedures to monitor how well they are progressing towards the goal (e.g. 0 could labor, etc.)
About 15 years ago I saw with my eyes children younger than 10 working in Chinese factories just outside the city of Florence, in Italy. When the police tried to entered and carry out checks on workers and the building they were met with stones and a human wall, made by all the male workers. It's a cultural issue.
An updated version of this documentary would only make it more depressing. So many more mobile phone giants now, sales also went up. Competition keeps getting stronger, more exploitation frfr
This is the one of the best investigation Documentary in recent times.. I really want to give my Appreciation to the team and thier work to bring this reality to the surface... Very very weldone...
Quite informative. The problem is further compounded by these manufacturers' planned obsolescence in the design of their phones which forces the user to upgrade their phones after a few years.
I use mine for phone calls, txt, diary/scheduler, navigation, email, occasional photos (6-10 per week?), keeping shopping and to-do lists, calculator, ebooks/audiobooks, bushfire warnings ... It's a fantastic tool that lives in my pocket, but rarely a toy. I watch RU-vid on a tablet, which I also use to look up stuff in the internet.
Is your organization is non profit organization? How did you handle investigation expenses? Is there any sponsors behind your work. Whatever, it must be something that encouraged you to make the documentry on trending mobile phones. Great work, appreciated 👍🏼
But let's not forget that this documentary IS NOW 10 years old!. Hardly updated. let's just hope conditions are much improved and please try and show a more up to date documentary if you can about mobile phones. Regards.
I'm a New Zealander currently in Taiwan on holiday and I've never seen so many people constantly on their phone. People are continually walking into me and it's so freaking annoying ! I'm amazed no one has been seriously hurt by not paying attention to the REAL world around them. I'M SERIOUS.
It is so bad in America, I was waiting on a line the other day and I swear to you there was 10 people and every one of them had a phone in their hand or they were watching it. I kept mine in my pocket because I felt uncomfortable😂
Great journalism. Regarding Congo: it's a real tragedy. Why couldn't the developed world collaborate with the country to introduce modern safer mining technologies, and help educate themselves? Regarding Baotou: solar power is abundant, and it would be cheap to distill that polluted water. Why don't they provide the locals with equipment to do that? Even just air dehumidifiers would do. Clean water is in the air... Regarding Child labor in factories: reporters stigmatize child labor. In fact, this must be analyzed deeper: when I was a kid, I loved to go to factory, because of the educational value of seeing how things are made, much more than I liked to go to kindergarten, where there's not such educational experience. So, it depends on how the kids are treated in during the breaks in such factory work, and what additional value do they get by being in these factories except for the small payments: what is the quality of food, entertainment, education there.
Great journalism - top notch stuff, I pray they are still knocking it out of the park to this day. True journalism is a dying art and has been replaced by shilling propaganda on a disturbingly large scale.
Don't feel sad or guilty, it's capitalism after all, it has many brighter sides than its negative sides, you cannot understand unless you are a complete multiracial, fluent multilingual, living around the world all alone since childhood like me.
@@asaunders1406 Even when people really do care: where's a will, there's a way, as we say in our country 😊 But most human beings just don't care, and want to live their lives lol 😉
What an epic documentary this has been. They have gone beyond limits to make it one of the finest documentaries out there. Thank you and you deserve recognition ❤
sadly, the people making this video are the reason this problem exists : the documentarians in this video could be leading by example, like instead of ending the film by saying they "don't know" what the solution is, any one of these French reporters could have shown us how they use dumbphones, instead of smartphones. They could have exemplified what they want the corporations to demonstrate: if any of these documentarians were inconveniencing themselves by not using smartphones, boycotting those corporations the same way they want the corporations to show social responsibility, and not chase profits, this video would be powerful. As it is, it's just sad because we all know the real solution, but none of us cares enough to stop using smartphones, so why would any of those companies change what they are doing? We want convenience, and Corporations want money. These reporters saw all of the human misery caused by their smartphones, and they all keep using them anyway, so WHO exactly are they expecting to watch this video and make a lifestyle change, if they themselves won't? kinda hypocritical...
no, you are getting it completely wrong. The solution isn’t to throw away your phones. The point is to raise enough awareness that people will demand regulatory changes from politicians to force companies to do the right thing. Unregulated capitalism is a disaster and the solution is more regulation. a relentless pursuit of profit with no consequences for pollution and exploitation is what has to be stopped
As i type this into a smartphone i used to watch this documentary, and i KNOW that i will not be disposing this, or any device in my home. I have to admit that although I'm not religious, I can see the devil within all it... On a less Supernatural notion, this is what happens when you subcontract every aspect are they single device or system. Because there really is no one large enough or known enough to be held accountable on scales as massive as these ones
Really appreciate your time and effort to bring such important issues to light and hope that something better would be done to improve the situation at ground level.
It's funny because this documentary haven't released any footage of Apple or Samsung or the other Big smartphone brands out there. But in reality they're all in, they are probably afraid of Lawsuits from those big companies
Correct! I've been following a electronic scrapper in Australia that have mentioned that he depopulate for example tantalum capacitors from electronics. Over in Sweden where I live I can't find anywhere to turn in such components for recycling. We do have recycling of electronics but I don't where they end up. I've seen another documentary years ago that a lot of electronic scrap is exported to countries that don't have the right conditions or tools for it.
The sad fact is, that most people that actually buy these phones aren't the people who are gonna watch this documentary... Thank you for a great documentary! I'm 43 and grew up while the cellphone started to become popular. I've never been one to buy the absolute latest models of anything, because I don't see the need for paying top dollar for the latest which usually are old within a year. Also the latest 5 years I haven't bought a new phone unless it was damaged. My current phone I've had for 3,5 years and it works really good still. The only thing I want instead is a de-googled phone for my privacy. I no longer use any social media so the only real use I have for my current phone is pretty much for my bank-id, storage of music and other data and to be able to use a good camera. I've even considered to go back to a dumb phone but then I will have a hard time using bank-id and banking apps. I don't know how good and environmentally friendly the brands Asus and OnePlus is, but they are the brands I've been buying lately, and I am happy to at least see they weren't mentioned in this documentary. But of course understand that they also to some extent aren't flawless.
@sykoteddy. I'm glad you asked about privacy. Check out this video called "No SIM, no problem" You will hear from someone who has not used a SIM card in almost a year.
I come from China, and I would like to share my opinion. Although this video appears to have been shot many years ago, the situation is still the same today. However, nowadays, people under the age of 16 are not allowed to work in factories. This was actually quite common in the past, and I have worked in five different factories in China. I remember my youngest colleague, who was only 14 years old, and he had dropped out of middle school to work.
The problem for me has become the battery. You can't swap them out. I just replaced my Samsung that is otherwise perfect for battery performance. They don't last as long in these Canadian winters
Plenty of midrange budget phones out there atm with better specs and same features.theres no need to spend anywhere close to a thousand dollars on a phone these days.
Incredible journalism! This should be shown in schools. If an entire generation was taught about these issues in schools, perhaps they would fight for regulations to be enforced more effectively.
I'm European. 42 years now....I was working on the deals since I was 6. Bringing water to workers on over 40°c and under the sun. Whole childhood hat to prepare and give foot to the animals ,clean after cows, children, sheep... My father before me, even at younger age, had to go out and take care of pigs and sheep... If you think all Europeans are living in big cities, than you're very wrong
@@bojantenjastraw man argument. Just cause worked at the age 6, you do not speak for everyone else. So the previous statement is still valid. 99% of Europeans today have never worked like this.
From my point of view, we, consumers are very ignorant of what really happen with the items or product we buy, so, things, this video becomes in an eye oppener to be awared of some issues that should not be ignore anymore
So, now go and buy another new phone. Ramp up the profits of the big companies. That is why they are big, because of these workers, underpayed and unrepresented, modern slavery. Go, buy another display.
Please please please when non-English is spoken do voiceover not just subtitles. The visually impaired people can’t read subtitled and rely solely on audio! Don’t be so narrow minded.
7:00 I worked in a million dollar vegetable-oil factory in Jinja, and the unsustainable work pace made me lose my job. 8 to 9 hours of very tough labor for only 2 US dollars per day.
Finally a brother with a common experience, I went for a job in polythene factory located in Luzira (KGL group), it's an Indian owned factory that only pays 2.3 USD for a 14 hours a day job which also includes nightshifts. I quit my job one day and didn't even get the courage to redeem the salary. Our governments are joke for not putting favorable labor policies that allows human exploitation
Making such documentaries takes a lot of time and so the delay in broadcasting is obvious. That does not change the process of extraction, mining and working conditions even in 2024.
Im obsessed with those docu movies! Top tier journalism here!! if only every graduating journalist was doing what they are supposed to , I think a lot of stuff would’ve been in the hands of the people rather than now
Thx u for the video n all your hard work this video will b great motivation for all who persevere through these hell of our society n our current world economy ( how money is valued and used) thx u sir ❤
I love my people they continue to support the world snd can remain friendly and humble. Its no wonder we were created first, civilization would have never lasted this far.
