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> Just one example is that their daily coffee is subsidized through the misery of minimum wage coffee shop employees. Your everything is "subsidized" by low wa
by LudwigNagasena 4y ago
> Just one example is that their daily coffee is subsidized through the misery of minimum wage coffee shop employees.
Your everything is "subsidized" by low wages of people living in third world countries. US coffee shop employees aren't quite near the bottom of that hierarchy.
- kbos87 4y ago100% true but doesn’t invalidate their situation. If we follow that logic to its end, there’s always someone in worse shape who is also further removed from those who have the ability to make a difference.
- LudwigNagasena 4y agoDo you think you have no ability to make a difference for them?
- kbos87 4y agoI don’t disagree, but are you suggesting that we shouldn’t act to solve a problem just because it isn’t the worst possible problem? Feels like a convenient out.