Most of the time when people say they have an unpopular opinion, it turns out it’s actually pretty popular.
Do you have some that’s really unpopular and most likely will get you downvoted?
Most of the time when people say they have an unpopular opinion, it turns out it’s actually pretty popular.
Do you have some that’s really unpopular and most likely will get you downvoted?
There is no moral consumption under capitalism. A lot of people think they agree with that. But simultaneously also seem to realize that they aren’t going to change the status quo. So they don’t try. It’s actually that there’s no morale consumption under capitalism but I have to do what I have to do to survive so here we are.
I hear that sentiment quite a bit, can you elaborate?
Seems to me that if you drive it to the extreme the same could be said for existing on earth.
Also surely ‘immoral’ has gradations that we can push. Child slavery is another level when compared to even screwing the working class out of money.
That’s a misquote: it’s “There is no ethical consumption under capitalism”. It’s basically saying that you, as a consumer, cannot legitimately make ethical decisions when buying, because the entire system is built on being exploitative, and thus any decision you make cannot be ethical because the choices you have are already the result of exploitation by the time you’re making the decision.
A good example is the “going green” fad: it does not matter which consumption choices you make, because your choices are effectively irrelevant. You spend a little bit more money for the “green” product, and that money will go directly to megacorporations that are exploiting and polluting on a scale that so outstrips your ability to combat it. Thus, your “more ethical” choice did absolutely nothing but fund the exact same polluters and environmental exploiters as if you had not made the “green” choice in the first place.
Can you expand? So what should be done in your world view?