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take their money and arrest those responsible (feddit.org)
submitted 3 months ago by to c/science_memes@mander.xyz
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[–] 24 points 3 months ago (6 children)

I always hate that most people are happy to blame corporations, forgetting we are consuming that's why corporations are creating.

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  • [–] 24 points 3 months ago (3 children)

    yeah, it is like blaming china for a pollution, when that pollution is externality of cheap shit we buy from them. it is our pollution in the end.

    that isn't an argument for blaming the end consumer, because that problem is not going to be solved from the bottom, but it is also childish to pretend like we, the consumers, are not complicit.

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  • [–] 8 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    You should read Terry Pratchett's Boots Theory. Many people don't have the option to pay more up front to consume less, if there is even an option to buy a more expensive but longer-lasting item in a given market any more.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago

    Many people don’t have the option

    well many do and they will buy cheap shit anyway. and i am not talking about boots, i am talking about people who have a dog, which is clearly non-essential expense, and they buy him shitty toy from temu. is that rubber toxic? who knows, who cares, look how cheap it is!

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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    I agree. It's obvious to me that it will never be a tidy "it's just them to blame" scenario but people really want it to be, regardless. I suspect the downvote crew will show up soon...

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