BadDec 6

Ethical consumption, 1860

https://jlai.lu/post/29739539

Show threadsorrybookbroke

You 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.

Dec 6 at 2:10pmWeb
Show threadrumschlumpelDec 6
Based on their past work, the artist is not a hypocrit, they’re intentionally making the character sound like an asshole.
Show threadnullDec 6
Yeah, 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.
Show threadNoneOfUrBusinessDec 6
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.
Show threadKobibiDec 6

The better analogy would be a 19th C American using products derived from cotton picked by slaves

Or the other way round, in the modern day the slave owners are the owners of the cobalt mines or whatever