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Where do you base your argument that the consumer should be the one to choose? For many generations, you didn’t have a dozen choices for what bowl to buy, you j
by ok_dad 3y ago
Where do you base your argument that the consumer should be the one to choose? For many generations, you didn’t have a dozen choices for what bowl to buy, you just bought the bowls available. Why today do we defer to the consumer, whose only role is to give money to use something another has made? Why aren’t we caring more about the workers and artisans who rely on their product sales to survive? Instead we allow large capital holders to build methods to undercut the artisans and in the process they usually make a worse product and ruin the environment somehow.
I think we have this backwards.
- Legend2440 3y agoBecause we are all the consumer. The point of doing work is to be able to consume other people's work. The total amount of things that can be done is desperately finite, but the amount that could be done is infinite. If a worker is making pottery by hand, they aren't doing something more valuable with their time.
- ok_dad 3y agoThe point of work is to survive a bit longer not to consume cheap crap.
- sobellian 3y agoProduction is not valuable in itself unless someone consumes it. As YC would say, "Make something people want." Why would we encourage society to make things no one wants?
- ok_dad 3y agoMake less stuff