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Your Phone Was Made By Slaves: A Primer on the Secret Economy
We think of Steve Jobs in his black turtleneck as the origin of our iPhones. It’s never a happy moment when you’re shopping for a tombstone. When death comes, it’s the loss that transcends everything else and most tombstones are purchased in a fog of grief. Death is a threshold for the relatives and friends who live on as well, changing lives in both intense and subtle ways. It’s the most dramatic and yet the most mundane event of a life, something we all do, no exceptions, no passes.
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Slavery was never abolished. It just got hidden.