I just bought these shoes:
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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).