It’s all a lie, we create a million ways to launder the little evils that are required to make, ship, and consume.
Even when a group has gone the lengths to try ethically source, the materials and meta materials go far back into supply chains that things like slave labor are literally threaded in. Every time you put in checks and balances for fair wages and ethical material harvesting, you increase the price until you begin pricing people with lesser means out.
Those price increases end up forcing those without the ability to buy a higher priced, ethically-produced thing, to buy things that aren’t like that. By participating in this, you are ensuring the dichotomy remains. But at a certain point in scale of consumption, it’s impossible to consume ethically.
Even when you are assured by organizations that the things you are consuming are ethically produced, they aren’t examining every product, they are doing things in aggregate and reporting a mean or average to you. It’s all a game of cups.
It’s all a lie, we create a million ways to launder the little evils that are required to make, ship, and consume.
Even when a group has gone the lengths to try ethically source, the materials and meta materials go far back into supply chains that things like slave labor are literally threaded in. Every time you put in checks and balances for fair wages and ethical material harvesting, you increase the price until you begin pricing people with lesser means out.
Those price increases end up forcing those without the ability to buy a higher priced, ethically-produced thing, to buy things that aren’t like that. By participating in this, you are ensuring the dichotomy remains. But at a certain point in scale of consumption, it’s impossible to consume ethically.
Even when you are assured by organizations that the things you are consuming are ethically produced, they aren’t examining every product, they are doing things in aggregate and reporting a mean or average to you. It’s all a game of cups.