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Your crops are picked by exploited immigrants, the coltan in your electronics mined by African child slaves, and the electronics themselves assembled on 14-hour shifts by sweatshop workers under capitalism. And you still have to pay for them.
What you're describing are colonialism and slavery, both of which are time-honored, bedrock capitalist institutions.