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Joe Rogan: “It's a multi, multi billion dollar industry that's powered…”

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RZA on Congo Cobalt Mining and Echoes of Past Exploitation

Published | Video Starts at 09:04

Because they want to make sure that nobody knows about this shit. They don't want any outrage. They want the mining to keep going as planned. I mean, it's, it's dark. Is dark. Because It's a multi, multi billion dollar industry that's powered by abject poverty. Trillion, probably. Trillion. Yeah. Because like, yeah, it's like you just saying, like, if it's in all our phones, that means not just our phones, but I think it's in a lot of electronics. (09:04–09:11)

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Asserts that [the mining industry] is extremely lucrative but relies on exploiting impoverished communities.

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