BadEthical consumption, 1860
rumschlumpelTBF it would be really hard to compete in a market where your competition relies on slave labor, unless you have a lot of ethically-minded consumers who can afford to pay more for ethically produced goods.
sorrybookbrokeYou are using technology. Technology uses lithium and cobalt from conflict zones and areas using slave labor.
You are a hypocrit.
No moral consumption means that it’s impossible to interact with this society without supporting some awful shit. It doesn’t mean do whatever lol doesn’t matter haha
Owning slaves wouldn’t count. That’s pretty direct harm.
Based on their past work, the artist is not a hypocrit, they’re intentionally making the character sound like an asshole.
nullYeah, this misses the mark for sure. “No ethical consumption under capitalism” is the response to someone calling you a hypocrite for being critical of capitalism while still necessarily engaging in it. Which the OP is doing, as you pointed out.
The point is that just because there's no ethical consumption under capitalism doesn't mean we should drop all pretense of trying, because there are still levels of unethicality.
tomiantI have said for years, the argument “vote with your wallets, folks!” is bad because:
“Hey if you don’t like slavery, just don’t buy slaves! Then everyone gets what they want.”
owenfromcanada“Vote with your wallet” is valid and often effective, but it’s not enough on its own. Also vote with your voice, your democratic power, and when all else fails, bricks.
Breaking windows got women the right to vote and everyone the right to unionize.
Also in GB, it got the common man the right to vote at the same time, since they were fighting WWI at the time and the parliament couldn’t really argue against it anymore.
Lesson: angry women get what they want.
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Historical usage of the guillotine mostly targeted nobles who were in the way of the bourgeoisie, leftist revolutionaries, and proletarian criminals.
As much as we romanticize the guillotine, strikes, sabotages, and bricks are the tools of the working class. They have a pretty good track record.
Although I can’t lie, I always smile when protesters bring out a mini guillotine and the ruling class media starts panicking :)
SoftestSapphicThis perfectly describes how YES, these systemic issues will never ever ever change until there are systemic changes.
Legal chattel slavery ended in the US because of systemic changes.
The same types of systemic changes is what will actually work with other trends today that we shame individuals about instead of forcing systemic changes.