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Agreed 100%. To me it's madness that Marriott and Benz wouldn't stand up for the right to speak one's mind.

I'm pretty sure Marriott and Benz stand up firsthand to their owners and in their list of priorities access to chinese markets is more important than human rights.

Given our worship of capital I'm amazed global emancipation of slavery ever happened. But I suppose that was only because new financial markets and industrialization created lots of better opportunities for capital investment than slave labour force - hence the market for slaves dwindled.

> I'm pretty sure Marriott and Benz stand up firsthand to their owners and in their list of priorities access to chinese markets is more important than human rights.

That is indeed the problem.

You mean Mercedes, the company that used slave laborers from camps to build vehicles and engines for the Nazis?

> You mean Mercedes, the company that used slave laborers from camps to build vehicles and engines for the Nazis?

One would have hoped they'd have learned something from that.

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