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> when every single product you bought contains 10 smaller products individually wrapped in plastic I never asked for this, noone ever did. Lets place the blam
by ClumsyPilot 4y ago
> when every single product you bought contains 10 smaller products individually wrapped in plastic
I never asked for this, noone ever did. Lets place the blame where is belongs, shall we?
You have swallawed the corporate propaganda of 'consumer is to blame' line, hook and sinker. We know that oil companies have spent billions on disinformation campaigns, we know they falsified scientific studies, villified nuclear power, and lobbied against every solution that would get us off oil.
We ripped out electric trams and trolley busses out of our cities. Sacraficed public walkways for cars and made our cities dangerous
We invented the crime of Jaywalking, something so stupid it still boggles my mind.
It was not the consumer that came up with the genious supply chain that ships shrimp caught in America to phillipines for processing, and then ships it back. A pair of jeans travels around the world three times before it arrives in the store. It's not the consumer that burns unsold fashion items to maintain artificial scarcity.
Its not the consumer that uses copyright to keeps repair manual under wraps, refuses to sell spare parts and makes products unrepairable.
These are the same people that encouraged children to smoke, added cocaine into a drink for kids, added lead to oil, dumped nuclear waste in the ocean and PTFAs into drinking water. They use child labour in every country where they can get away with it.
- chaosbolt 4y agoI don't blame the consumer, I just make fun of those who virtue signal as if they truly do their part, but again the consumer votes with his wallet, but society motivates him into a certain way of spending by bombarding him with ads, etc. The problem is the system, you can't blame a cell in a cow for now behaving the same way as a cell in a cat, we're just that, cells that interact with one another, the emergent system is our society, and since we've become super connected with the internet, society could be seen as its own brain with its own consciousness and needs, and trying to think about it is as useless as a single neuron trying to imagine consciousness. Honestly I'm just not smart enough to think about these things, it's a problem with too many variables, and while it can be modeled with analogies and examples limited by language, those are just useful for internet posting or entertaining conversations.