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We are complicit in our employer’s deeds

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215 points LaSombra | 1 comments | 05 May 20 13:04 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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guyzero ◴[05 May 20 15:34 UTC] No.23081132[source]▶
If you eat vegetables in the US, they were probably picked by farmworkers paid below minimum wage who are probably do not have legal work authorization. If you eat meat, in addition to having killed an animal (which isn't an ethical issue for everyone) meat processing plants continue to be the source of endless health and safety violations and which also exploit immigrants, both legal and illegal.

There is no ethical consumption under capitalism. And by extension, there is no ethical employment under capitalism.

The notion that you can get a single job that somehow places you outside society and the economy and puts you above other workers morally or ethically is fiction. By all means, seek to minimize your impact or make your own ethical choices, but there is no choice without some sort of ethical compromise.

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1. kungtotte ◴[05 May 20 17:04 UTC] No.23082223[source]▶
You can choose fair trade products over the alternatives, you can forgo meat entirely or mostly and be selective about where you source it, you can choose not to put money in Nestlé's pocket and you can choose not to work for Google.

You don't have to be perfect in order to make better, more ethical, choices.

Yes, you're entirely correct that living a perfectly ethical life is nearly impossible.

That's still no excuse for not putting in the effort.