When buying stuff, consuming media and picking jobs - where do you draw the line of considering something too evil? Among my peers there’s a lot of people who will actively avoid Nestle products, or who don’t eat meat. But none of them bats an eye at using Facebook or X. Nobody cares about using products made in China under awful working conditions. I have worked as a freelancer translating greenwashing for a few doubtful megacorporations, others work as lawyers or programmers supporting them.
Especially when it comes to work I find myself between a rock and a hard place. I have tried doing blue collar jobs instead to avoid this. My body tells me very clearly that it’s not a full time option for me and I have been running into the same problems of having to consider working for people who either get their money from evil megacorporations or and/or having to do stuff that actively causes some kind of harm, and being forever poor while doing so.
Where do you draw the line? How do you live your life in such a way that it doesn’t support evil directly or indirectly while being able to bring food to the table and pay the rent?
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So in practice this means I don’t buy at all from companies where the CEO earns way more than their workers, where the companies are not unionised, and American, where the companies are from authoritarian countries.
I don’t drive a car either, and so don’t finance the petrol states’ main buffer.
Easiest way to do this, buy local, buy from stores focusing on green stuff. Don’t buy anything from large stores.
There really should be an app for this, where you can scan a product for whether it satisfies the checkmarks. Or through which you can order products like that. It won’t list products that break worker’s and human rights, and so on.