It's a complicated subject and the posts listing the "evils of capitalism" aren't exactly wrong here... But this is similar to the animal abuse topic of conversation.
I get that we want to end bad practices once and for all and that a lot of people feel very passionately about human rights abuses, animal abuse, etc (as one should, nothing wrong with that). The issue for me begins when we call out more than we should in order to create a shame-and-distancing blanket which can often make an issue seem to broad to actually have a solution to it.
For example, the list of companies OP posted rightfully says that it is those that "directly or indirectly benefiting from the use of Uyghur workers". And herein lies, to me, the issue. There are factories of all kinds: textile, electronics, etc and even within those, production, assembly, QA and more divisions. Finding which factories (owned by what company) actively force Falun Gong, Uyghur, children and other vulnerable population groups into labor is key and who is, ACTIVELY, employing those companies. Because by the current phrasing, if factory A has forced labor to produce (for example) 0.15mm U Point Screws and factory B, C, D and E all use 0.15mm U Point Screws to produce goods for international companies Z, Y, X and W, those companies would still be on the list for "indirectly benefiting". And surely, they buy those screws because factory B,C,D & E say that A sells them at the lowest cost even though they are of the same quality and that's the end of the analysis, if it even goes so far. Most likely factories B,C,D & E simply list price points per units and offer material cost levels of varying degrees of quality & availability.
These are horrible issues and surely the solution IS to shed light on it and for people to be more conscious on how and where their goods are coming from and how they're being made. But at the same time, I feel this creates a slippery slope where if everyone is the villain, it becomes harder and harder to identify who is actively choosing to procure goods and services from human suffering for profits and for whom it's an unintended side effect.
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