It makes sense if consumerism is your only connection to human society. It is a form of trained helplessness to fixate perpetually on consumption. If someone

It makes sense if consumerism is your only connection to human society. It is a form of trained helplessness to fixate perpetually on consumption. If someone wants to do good in the world, go out and do it. help someone for real. I think it is lack of real connection that leads people to navel gaze about the third order consequences of their clothes or software. I think this substack [1] summed it up perfectly: >I was 16 when I realized I had to kill myself. I was in a Denny’s with my friends, looking at an empty glass of Diet Coke. The glass was produced by taking the raw resources of a foreign country, exploiting its workers in horrible factories, and sent to me to drink out of. And I didn’t really have any other option for getting liquid from a nearby water source into my body, it had to travel through moral atrocity along the way. It wasn’t just one glass, of course. It was everything. It was the shoes I was wearing (shoes were a big deal in those days) and the flooring I walked on and the food I ate. The only moral act was to kill oneself, and failure to do that meant you accept your role as a vicious monster. (The depression helped, but maybe the depression/guilt causality was reversed.) https://deathisbad.substack.com/p/does-the-omelas-kid-have-an-obligation https://deathisbad.substack.com/p/does-the-omelas-kid-have-a...