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[-] Trampampoline@sh.itjust.works 13 points 15 hours ago

“there’s no ethical consumption under capitalism”.

The VPS hosting of every Lemmy instance is thus unethical. Mastodon is then unethical. Buying a gun to defend yourself and your home is then unethical. Buying a child food is then unethical.

Hard disagree. The issues of life are not so cut and dry.

Fuck Twitter tho.

[-] daniskarma@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago)

I meant that everything you buy in a capitalist world is putting money in hands of bad people.

You buy baby food from nestle and you are giving money to terrible people.

What I implied in the post, is that that doesn't make you a bad person. You need to live, and most importantly, you have right to enjoy your life. That would inevitably lead to giving money to bad people.

Here a corporation, Mozilla, is using a service from a bad person, twitter. Are they as bad because of it? I don't think so. There are other people, like Bernie Sanders, who still have an active twitter account. They are doing consumption that profits bad people, but in a capitalist economy that is inevitable. Thus I don't think the consumption of something should be the sole factor judging the ethics of a person.

We live in a society where is very hard or sometimes impossible to avoid it. Here, Mozilla or Bernie Sanders, haven't found another social network with enough userbase for their communication purposes. I personally don't agree with their choice, But I won't call them fash for making that choice. Because I know how limited consumption offers are in a capitalist world.

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