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Do I wear or use anything that was built with slave labor and will I face judgment?
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#2
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depends, do you wear anything made in the US? chances are high you already do if so
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What if everything you get is 2cnd hand from good will or out of a dumpster?
I'm sure I wear something that is triggering to someone. Some people have a lot of agency to help free slaves. Others are slaves themselves. I guess it depends on the subjective nature of slavery. Most people work because they can't support themselves off the land. Essentially most workers in America are indentured to the corporations they work for, and have no agency in the matter. This is how slavery is propagated in a free market. I'm not saying other systems of slavery are better, or that human hierarchies work without some form of slavery. I am saying if you want to be truly free you have to break your reliance on the state and your employer to keep you fed and safe. If you buy into a power company here, or buy from whole foods, you are a slave to someone else. We all rely on the military. If we had a true frontier where you could move and build your own private infrastructure, create your own power. You might have the ability to free yourselves. Until then, your life is incorporated through the United States of America, and you are hers. | ||
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america was built on slavery
hope this helps
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I just bought these shoes:
proxy.duckduckgo.com.jpg Someone gave me $200 in Nike giftcards for my birthday... and I didn't have weightlifting shoes. Nike is pretty famous for child labor. Is it my fault that as some peasant given Nike giftcards I bought shoes with them instead of chucking them in the trash? That's John Locke's argument... I think that's bullshit. You don't necessarily approve of middle east wars when you fill your car up with gas and you don't think it's OK to discriminate against gays when you buy a Chick-fil-A sandwich*. This is why we have laws and voting. If we could just act as some kind of disciplined group of consumer activists -- we wouldn't have the problems we do. We can't. You can't hold people to that. Rich people are big fans of consumer activism because it allows them to feel morally superior but doesn't really affect the bottom line of their stock portfolio (because it doesn't work). | ||
Last edited by JurisDictum; 09-11-2018 at 05:16 PM..
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If it wasn't made in the US it was made by children or slaves.
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Most stuff is only assembled / packaged in the US. Almost all the discrete parts come from some hell hole.
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My deplorable roommate just buys counterfeit direct from China. She's in here trying to sell me on this app. WTF.
Wondering wtf these packages with Chinese addresses were. Americans make me sad. | ||
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