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Steve@communick.news 3 weeks agoWhere 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.
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.
Maybe. But price wasn’t the argument being made. That’s a non sequitur.
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
The idea is capitalism. As in buying from large corporations. Whatever the price or profit, the topic was about who and where you’re buying from, not for how much.
Don’t let perfect be in the way of better.
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.
You’re right, guess I’m just gonna give everyone hand jobs or are you going to tell me I need to build my own sex robot from scratch?
Giving someone a hand job, is doing it from scratch.
What’s the sex bot for?
No, because I was planning on using a water based lubricant
There are lost of recopies for home made lube online.
For hand jobs, simple olive oil will work fine. Don’t know if it’s water based, but it clean up easy enough.
But still, what the bot for?
HerbGrower@slrpnk.net 3 weeks 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.
Steve@communick.news 3 weeks 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.
HerbGrower@slrpnk.net 3 weeks ago
Other than refusing to consume, what do you suggest doing that will achieve more and is easy for most people to do?
Steve@communick.news 3 weeks ago
Organizing, protesting, voting and voter registration drives, marketing and coms. Even starting a union owned business, or something similar. Those kinds of things make a difference. individual purchasing decisions don’t.