lol you can get an ad for ozempic in the middle of a news story about how there is counterfeit ozempic being sold out of real pharmacies
this post was submitted on 26 Jul 2024
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There's no ethical consumption under capitalism. We don't hang ourselves. Our system crushes us under its boot.
OP, those assholes have you blaming yourself. But, they've provided for us no practical alternatives.
From the consumers point of view, you can only choose products that are in supply, so we think our choices don't really have an impact. People often see it as a systemic issue that's outside of our control.
From the corporations point of view, the consumer creates the demand and if they didn't provide the supply, another corporation would. They also see it as a systemic issue that's outside of their control.
The corporations love nothing more than the message "just consume our stuff and don't blame yourself for any environmental impact. You can't be perfect anyways, so might as well book a flight, buy a gas car, or buy our beef." It's so comfortable for both parties because they don't have to change anything and can just point the finger at each other for the negative consequences.
Of course it's sometimes necessary to do something polluting. People who need a car and can only afford a used car probably won't be able to buy an electric one. I don't even think that's unethical consumption. But those who can afford an electric car and choose a new gas car instead do something unethical. Ultimately many of these practical issues will be solved as green technology matures, there will be cheap-ish used electric cars in the future, for example.
The vast majority of Americans lack practical alternative choices as a function of Weber's Iron Cage, effective poverty, and time scarcity.
It's a minority privilege that seemingly you and I enjoy to be able to speak with our dollar. It's important we realize others have far less freedom than we do.
If there's no ethical consumption under capitalism that means there's no ethical consumption period. I don't think you can point to a period of time where humans consuming something didn't come with some sort of ethical baggage.
Hasty generalization with a red herring.
Good luck with your whatever.
Practical alternatives abound, you just refuse to make hard choices.
Practical alternatives
hard choices
:-/
RIP Jasper tho... You will be missed
FUCK ads btw use ublock origin with firefox
Yes but you have to go back to the 80’s and make this meme for every year. We’ve known about it since then.
Introducing meme technology earlier in the time stream could have disastrous consequences
gestures to everything
looks at everything
...maybe we should stop futzing with the meme timeline.
Tell me about it. Every ad during X-Files on Comet (TV channel on Sling) is viaga or blue chew (more viaga).
My dong works just fine Comet! Stop making me sad!
Bye bye Maligne Lodge