• lolola
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    1 year ago

    The phrase “there is no ethical consumption under capitalism” comes to mind.

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      1 year ago

      Well that’s fucking dumb. Everyone who was running a business under capitalism magically becomes ethical once there’s a dictator commie at the top? The stupid shit bot farms say these days.

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        1 year ago

        :\ well that didn’t make me feel very good.

        I guess it’d be more appropriate to say that it’s difficult to be an ethical consumer under capitalism? Or maybe it’s difficult to be an ethical consumer period?

        I don’t know what a better system looks like. But waiting for companies to magically become ethical on their own doesn’t seem to be working.

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          The point I’m making is there are shitty, awful people taking advantage of others regardless of whatever financial model your government is “running” today. Your argument was a blanket statement about capitalism.

          If you bought clothes made by Uighur slaves from communist China is that somehow more ethical than the capitalist clothing companies?