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The Baobab of Choice #31 — Your cobalt, their batteries, which side do you choose?

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When the transparency you demand threatens your community's only use.

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No good answer, no bad one: two paths, two values, an impossible decision.

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You're an accountant at a Katanga mining company in the DRC. When you audit the books, you discover that the company massively underestimates the value of the cobalt exported — Millions of dollars escape Congolese tax, enriching foreign intermediaries and some local elites. You have the evidence. But your manager warns you coldly: if you transmit these documents to the authorities or the press, the buying multinational threatens to relocate its supply chain to a competitor in Chile. Three thousand miners would lose their jobs. Your own brother digs into these galleries. Your mother lives on that salary.

What do you choose?


A — You reveal fraud and demand the fair value of Congolese cobalt.

B — You're silent to preserve the 3,000 jobs in your community.

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