Otherwise we won’t have industry, and I like my toys.
Your toys are being manufactured by some underpaid slave worker in china or india. Have fun playing with these in the few hours of life you got left from the industry.
So you’re saying you think it’s preferable and even possible to go back to a society without any of the amenities which require industry on the scale that regulation is necessary?
Because that’s the actual argument, not whether a person in a capitalistic system participates in said system out of necessity.
I say “toys”, but I’m talking about electronics I actually need. I prefer buying the most ethical ones, but sometimes those option’s don’t exist. And the electronics I’ve now set my eyes on are not manufactured by underpaid slave workers in India or China, but The United States of America.
Just fyi though, clothing is the number one slave industry, and me purchasing a product or two of fancy electronics a year is nothing compared to youngsters constantly buying disposable clothing made in sweatshops. My backpack is older than the average age on Lemmy (from the early 90’s), my jacket is from the 70’s, and aside from a dozen domestic made underwear and t-shirts or so, all my other clothing I’ve either gotten as a gift or bought second-hand. Wool, leather, hemp, cotton and other natural fabrics > polyester.
The main point still remains that the se idyllic cooperatives won’t happen without big time organised… organisations. Like one specifically for matters regarding governing of, say, industries and labour protection.
I wonder what one could call such “governing organisations”?
Your toys are being manufactured by some underpaid slave worker in china or india. Have fun playing with these in the few hours of life you got left from the industry.
So you’re saying you think it’s preferable and even possible to go back to a society without any of the amenities which require industry on the scale that regulation is necessary?
Because that’s the actual argument, not whether a person in a capitalistic system participates in said system out of necessity.
I say “toys”, but I’m talking about electronics I actually need. I prefer buying the most ethical ones, but sometimes those option’s don’t exist. And the electronics I’ve now set my eyes on are not manufactured by underpaid slave workers in India or China, but The United States of America.
Just fyi though, clothing is the number one slave industry, and me purchasing a product or two of fancy electronics a year is nothing compared to youngsters constantly buying disposable clothing made in sweatshops. My backpack is older than the average age on Lemmy (from the early 90’s), my jacket is from the 70’s, and aside from a dozen domestic made underwear and t-shirts or so, all my other clothing I’ve either gotten as a gift or bought second-hand. Wool, leather, hemp, cotton and other natural fabrics > polyester.
The main point still remains that the se idyllic cooperatives won’t happen without big time organised… organisations. Like one specifically for matters regarding governing of, say, industries and labour protection.
I wonder what one could call such “governing organisations”?