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1. Bob Mottram 🔧 ☕ ✅ (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Sunday, 08-Jul-2018 09:55:54 EDT Bob Mottram 🔧 ☕ ✅
   Ethical consumerism is ok, but it has limits. If you had the time to do supply chain research on the things you use, the services you interact with and the clothes you wear you'll find all sorts of frighteningly unethical practices.
   
   https://live.ar.al/2018/07/06/whither-ethics-new-scientist
   
   This is the nature of capitalism. The branding tells you it's about free exchange in a market of participants having equal rights to buy and sell. But if you investigate beyond the gloss you'll find...something else entirely. It's the same something else that Rosa Luxemberg wrote about in Accumulation of Capital.
   
   One thing we should try to avoid is having Facebook and Google sponsor all tech conferences. This seems to be a notable part of their current strategy.
   1. Annah (maiyannah@community.highlandarrow.com)'s status on Sunday, 08-Jul-2018 11:48:30 EDT Annah

      in reply to
      @bob The ideal of capitalism and the reality are two very different things.