Fuck that anarcho bullshit. If a foreign company had been running the mines, employing the locals to mine the metals, then at the very least there would have been a specific company to point to and say "you are fucking up". If they had been mining stuff they have been mining for generations, then they are probably pretty good at it and would be hired by presenting parameters that the foreign company must hire local miners, provide ppe and all that good stuff required by safety, a la OSHA in the U.S., for the miners. Or, require those types of regulations for any company that will be operating the mine. Which Apple, Samsung, Sony, Microsoft do not have to worry about the conditions of those mining the resources that they will be using to make their phones and computers because they are using labor that has been contracted out. This is sub-contracted labor, an evil so evil it harkens back to the Gilded Age and Industrial Revolution of America, which fucking sucked and is a shameful period of History for all of the industrialized West. These are the same companies that manufacture these electronic devices in plants that must install suicide nets because they are so shitty that enough people have tried to kill themselves by jumping off the buildings roofs that it warranted the installation of suicide safety nets. These aren't the happy places of innovation as the programmers and E.E. headquarters. Basically what I am saying, after this off-topic ramble, is that these companies have the clout to demand certain requirements from their mineral sources. They have the power to demand a first-rate amount of documentation and standards to be applied. They do not have to pay the wage of a Western unionized miner, although by doing so would completely revolutionize the DRC human rights-wise and economically, perhaps creating a political environment that would model that of the industrialized West and above all cut the knees out of any type of radicalization of the population of the DRC, whether they be foreign or natural citizens. Demand the miners be paid a quarter of the wage of an American miner, I am assuming $10.00 an hour, nevermind that I think that that is an unjust wage for what the miners do, goddam is it unjust, then these companies could say no child labor. Let's pretend the world is not as fucking horrible as it is and say that 1 out of every 8 workers are children. Each child that must work in order to put food on the table of their family, is not working, no children are working in such conditions, and I understand that it is a lofty standard and wholeheartedly understand that it is an unreachable goal that all children are able to lay in fields with the sun on their faces with full bellies and peace in their hearts, unaware that darwinism has been twisted against them in a feeble and weak minded attempt to justify bullies and cowards and thieves, none of which will ever be in a maximum security prison with the true heroes of capitalism, I understand all this. These are too lofty of goals for people, we are not capable to fulfill that dream, but if, IF, this could ever happen, then one other adult could be added to the labour force, another adult making a fucking killing at $2.50 an hour, such a fucking killing, making a whole $30.00 a day in a country where two dollars a day suffices, $210.00 a week, where fourteen is making it, a grand $840.00 a month, without some barbarian's blackmailing the populace of their freedom and souls, those eight workers on one shift could redically change the freemarket economy of the area. Hopefully the farmer charges more for their toil. Hopefully the landlord charges a bit more for their land, maybe even becoming human beings and providing basics that the industrialized world sometimes forgets exists. These companies international companies could do this, they could revolutionize places, with the use of contracts that would reduce their profits by $100 a phone or tablet or laptop that cost maybe $5.00 to mine and ship to the production plant and maybe $10.00 to assemble, the designers' salaries are paid by the first 10% of sales and their engineers are paid in the next 10%, all of which are bullshit numbers I made up to illustrate a point. And as long as the real numbers are more than what I presented, then throw them at my argument and I hope they all stick, but if they are less if everybody who actually produced the phones are less, then just leave me alone because I already have so little faith in people that I do not think I could handle that kind of truth. Truthfully, I could handle it because it would not really effect me monetarily, or physically, or relevantly in any way, because sadness is not relevant to people.