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novibe@lemmy.ml 5 months agoIt really doesn’t matter… there is no ethical consumption under capitalism. Just use what’s more practical or better in any way for you.
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novibe@lemmy.ml 5 months agoIt really doesn’t matter… there is no ethical consumption under capitalism. Just use what’s more practical or better in any way for you.
onlinepersona@programming.dev 5 months ago
That’s a cop out. If you make no effort, then of course nothing will change. You can look for brands that try to be ethical like FairPhone or Fair Trade brands. If all you do keep buying from the biggest, baddest brands out there, well, you’re part of the problem. They wouldn’t be rich without people like you.
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novibe@lemmy.ml 5 months ago
There are no “good” brands under capitalism. The issue is not of the moral failing of individual companies. We can’t solve the issues of capitalism by “consuming” right.
You think fairphone has no slave-labour rare-earth metals in them?
onlinepersona@programming.dev 5 months ago
Riddle me this: can flawed being create a perfect system?
Also, is your “solution” to living in an evil, capitalistic society being a consumer of the biggest capitalistic brands?
Everything is black and white? There’s no in-between? Fairphone is thus as bad as Apple?
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novibe@lemmy.ml 5 months ago
It doesn’t matter if they are “bad” or not bro. The issue is the system. Even in a perfect capitalist world where all companies were “fair”something, we would still be destroying the planet with climate change and exploiting the labour of people in the third-world.
And who cares about “perfect”? I only care about meaningful change that helps not destroy the planet. Buying a fairphone is not it.