• Cosmic Cleric@lemmy.world
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    2 years ago

    no such thing as ethical consumption under capitalism.

    There was a time, long ago, where companies actually cared about their customers, and wanted to sell them good products while making a profit, and they strived for the win - win, and the “customer is always right” philosophy. They took their fair share, and they didn’t triy to squeeze every last dime out of their customers with crappy products.

    Not that that they were saints by any stretch of the imagination (there were definitely bad players back then too) but there used to be a sense of ethics with Capitalism, in America at least, a sense of products being warrantied to work the way they should be and advertised as how they would actually work.

    I have no effing idea how to get back to that state, as it seems like the “lunch for wimps” crowd are running the c-suites these days.