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SUS1501 Assignment 4 Semester 2 Memo | Due 12 September 2025. All questions fully answered. So, in assessment 2, we reflected on a particular case involving great wealth – Elon Musk’s net wealth
increasing by ZAR 12 billion every day in 2024! EVERY DAY!!!!
In assessment 3, we reflected on very severe poverty and abuse in the supply chain of a global
commodity – cobalt. In this assessment we are going to think about the possibility that these two issues
– great wealth and great poverty – might be linked. Or as we said in one of the assignment 1 questions:
“The wealth of a few depends on the poverty of many.” To make this possibility really come alive
though, we want you to consider the two scenarios we looked at in assignment 2 and 3 together this
time.
To make this possibility really come alive though, we want you to consider the two scenarios we
looked at in assignment 2 and 3 together this time. Why together? Well because of these:
Tesla Batteries. You see, up until very recently Cobalt was a critical component of these batteries. No
cobalt, no lithium cobalt batteries. No lithium cobalt batteries, no Tesla. No child labour, a lot less
cheap cobalt available for these batteries. These two scenarios are intimately linked. So, it seems that
in this case, “the unbelievable wealth of a few depends on the awful miserable poverty of many”.
To me this poses an obvious quest ion:
ISTHIS OK?
And this is what we are going to discuss in this assessment!
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