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Why ethical consumption feels meaningless

I buy fair trade everything but live in a country built on stolen land with wealth from slavery and wonder if ethical consumption is just a joke.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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Individual consumer choices feel insignificant when situated within larger systems of historical and ongoing exploitation.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Colonialism and persistent wealth inequality?”

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