Consumer Ethics and Why They Suck
May. 22nd, 2009 01:31 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
skysailorEthics are annoying. Like, seriously, seriously annoying. Go out and buy a T-shirt at the GAP. Congrats, you've just contributed to horrific factory working conditions, forced use of birth control, whatever massive environmental impact, etc. Don't buy the shirt. That person who was working in those horrific factory working conditions and forced to use birth control now has nothing to live on. And you still need a T-shirt.
Okay, you say, store-bought T-shirts suck. Screw T-shirts. I'll custom-make something. So go buy a few yards of fabric at the fabric store. Congrats, you've just contributed to child slavery and the draining of a major body of water. Don't worry, you would've contributed to that with the T-shirt, too.
Fuck that shit, you say, I'm going organic uber-natural sustainable fair trade with environmentally friendly sparkles. Pay me literally ten times more for the fabric alone. Then realize you're still contributing to environmental damage, and there's undoubtedly something someone's not telling you along the way which is probably so ethically screwed up it hurts. Those cotton seeds probably killed someone's mother or something.
Screw all of you! I shall go to Goodwill! Donated clothes at low prices ftw! Hell, I'll donate some old clothes myself!
Congrats. You just aided the collapse of a domestic clothing industry. Poor saps didn't need a functioning economy, anyway.
I hate ethics.
Okay, you say, store-bought T-shirts suck. Screw T-shirts. I'll custom-make something. So go buy a few yards of fabric at the fabric store. Congrats, you've just contributed to child slavery and the draining of a major body of water. Don't worry, you would've contributed to that with the T-shirt, too.
Fuck that shit, you say, I'm going organic uber-natural sustainable fair trade with environmentally friendly sparkles. Pay me literally ten times more for the fabric alone. Then realize you're still contributing to environmental damage, and there's undoubtedly something someone's not telling you along the way which is probably so ethically screwed up it hurts. Those cotton seeds probably killed someone's mother or something.
Screw all of you! I shall go to Goodwill! Donated clothes at low prices ftw! Hell, I'll donate some old clothes myself!
Congrats. You just aided the collapse of a domestic clothing industry. Poor saps didn't need a functioning economy, anyway.
I hate ethics.
