Comment on Wealth inequality will destroy America.

• Steve@communick.news ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Where do the ingredients come from? Are you growing your own grain and milling it into your own flower? Do you have your own cows or goats to make your own cheese? Did you built your own oven? Fired with wood you cut down yourself?

  Not buying the very last link in the chain doesn’t matter. It only makes you feel like you’re doing something.

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  • Chev@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

    Don’t let perfect be in the way of better.

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    • Steve@communick.news ⁨56⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

      I’m not.
      I’m asking people to not treat better as the solution. They way they do with rent controls and school loan forgiveness. Buying locally is fine to do, for you in your life, but it has no effect on the larger problem. Too many people pretend it does, or will.

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  • HerbGrower@slrpnk.net ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    When making something nice I would buy the ingredients from local independents where I can. I can almost see the farm I get cheese and garlic from on a clear day but there is a hill in the way.

    Its also risky though, they sell fucking massive slabs of halloumi style cheese. Its a lot of money but also a lot of cheese.

    Can’t do it for every ingredient with every recipe, but I am fed up of the just give up attitude I often hear simply because something isn’t 100% perfect in every way and using that as a reason to not even try. So I do what I reasonably can.

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    • Steve@communick.news ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Like I said, it makes you feel better, that’s fine.
      But don’t pretend it’s fighting the fight. Though if you don’t pretend, it may not make you feel better.

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      • HerbGrower@slrpnk.net ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Other than refusing to consume, what do you suggest doing that will achieve more and is easy for most people to do?

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  • arrow74@lemmy.zip ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Not buying the very last link in the chain doesn’t matter.

    It absolutely does. You’re cutting out the part with highest markup. Skipping an entire manufacturing process.

    You can get the ingredients for a fraction of the cost compared to a finished product.

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    • Steve@communick.news ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Maybe. But price wasn’t the argument being made. That’s a non sequitur.

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      • arrow74@lemmy.zip ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        I’m sorry where do you think profit comes from? It’s not grown on profit trees, it’s baked into the price. Higher markup, high price, higher profit.

        Non sequitur my ass

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