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When Your Labor Advocacy Benefits from Distant Labor Exploitation

I work for a union and believe in worker rights but our pension fund is invested in companies that exploit workers in other countries and I don't know how to reconcile this.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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Globalized economics can create situations where fighting for justice in one place depends on perpetuating injustice elsewhere.

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“Where Are You with Buddhist economics — right livelihood?”

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