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This may not apply here but you can't have your cake and eat it too. Exploitation doesn't have to be active but can emerge from perverse incentives, ignorance,
by scollet 7y ago
This may not apply here but you can't have your cake and eat it too. Exploitation doesn't have to be active but can emerge from perverse incentives, ignorance, and malicious opportunism. I imagine a large faction of people espousing more liberal viewpoints are at worst willfully disingenious or at best optimizing for the emotional/time investment of supporting ethical behaviour.
My opinion, not taken as fact: young, city-dwelling liberals have been some of the most corrupt in this regard. This includes idly participating in second-hand exploitation, but also actively reinforcing exploitative practices because they align with a personal economic incentive.
- grumple 7y agoI've had exactly the opposite experience. These city-dwelling liberals are quite conscientious about what they buy, supply chains, and their impact on the world.
- scollet 7y agoIt's definitely a spectrum that transcends anecdotes. I'm colored by people saying one thing and doing another, but I always keep an open mind because of this; looking for proof of action rather than intent. In that case, I think I was wrong in referring to a group of people under a constructed label as if they were the same person and judging them with my own presupposition.