the liability is with the mining company and national government of Congo. the companies purchasing products can indeed put pressure on both to improve the working conditions of miners but in the end as with nearly every human tragedy, it comes down to the government to take responsibility for its actions and inaction. nothing changes until the local government has to change it.
You literally want to place the blame solely on a third world country for the deaths and disease of all these child laborers when it's our first world addiction to their resources driving the injustice in the first place? Who is in a better economic standing to improve this situation?
Would you have no problem buying ivory, since it's the poacher who acted immorally, and you as the end consumer have no responsibility as to how it was supplied?
I don't throw this word around lightly, but what we are enabling in the Congo is evil, and all so we can drive expensive electric cars and pretend like we're making the world better. It's pathetic.
However:
> The entire monitor is controlled via macOS, which means that even if you wanted to hook up a non-Apple laptop or desktop capable of outputting video through USB Type-C, you couldn't. It won't turn on in the first place. (Trust us: We tried.) You can achieve full functionality with Windows, but you'll have to be running it on a Mac in Boot Camp.
This seems unacceptable. Instead of not running at the full 6k resolution (like the 5k one does because DP, at the time, only supported 4k over one cable), they just won’t let it work? There has to be some technical reason besides malice.