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Well it’s certainly an abstract loss, so saying “what exactly” is slightly unfair as the abstract loss cannot be exactly quantified. But probably the simplest a
by TaylorAlexander 2y ago
Well it’s certainly an abstract loss, so saying “what exactly” is slightly unfair as the abstract loss cannot be exactly quantified. But probably the simplest answer is that the customers may have paid less if they knew it was not made in the USA, and so they have lost money. So perhaps a class action lawsuit will be filed. I guess loss of money is concrete enough.
More abstractly the people may have hoped to support the work of their fellow countrymen, and would instead have been undercutting them with overseas labor. That loss is not financial, but in the way the US works perhaps some monetary value could be conjured for this as well. Or perhaps that loss is considered equal to the amount they overpaid for the product.
In any case I think I’ve convinced myself that the customers should receive some financial compensation and the company should be required to clearly notify people of what they have done, to scrub any goodwill they earned that could have led to an increase in future purchases at the store.
- thaumasiotes 2y agohttps://satwcomic.com/my-little-pony https://satwcomic.com/my-little-pony
- TaylorAlexander 2y agoI’ve read the comic but I’m very curious to learn more about how you feel it relates here. I guess the biggest thing I’m taking away from your comic is that maybe the people from Denmark don’t care much about some religious diet restrictions, and I’m not seeing how that relates to this story.
- thaumasiotes 2y agoLearning that what you thought was beef was in fact pork and horse is the same injury as learning that what you thought was Made in the U.S.A. wasn't. Judging by the actual response, it's not something that rises to the level of requiring compensation, because the injury is imaginary.
- TaylorAlexander 2y agoWell the USA is famously litigious so even if it is the same injury (which I think would require further justification) the USA is very different from Denmark on how people might be compensated for deception.