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“The brazen hypocrisy staggers the mind. Disney, which commands a market cap larger than the GDP of many nations, can't find the courage to even wait for court challenges? Meta, which regularly boasts its power to connect billions, suddenly can't muster the strength to defend its own policies and users? These aren't businesses making tough choices – they're paper empires run by moral cowards—simpering, whimpering, and weak.”

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

You proved it's impossible to be a completely ethical consumer, but did you prove that it's necessary to be a consumer at all? Or that all volumes of consumption are equally culpable?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 hours ago

consumer, but did you prove that it's necessary to be a consumer at all?

Depends on how you define it

In 1906, Alfred Henry Lewis stated, “There are only nine meals between mankind and anarchy.”