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45 sats \ 1 reply \ @optimism 22h \ on: The Strange Moral Relativism of "Free Trade" econ
You cannot centrally plan morals or the weight of them upon peoples decisions. You're free to have an opinion about it tho: judge me for using cheap products from China like the 1.6M sats phone I am typing this reply from, or the cheap 4yo MBP - that I paid 17M sats for at the time -that I could have written this from. My problem is though that I have no alternatives that fit my requirements in these cases.
If there are western made products that fit my requirements or even almost fit it - my hardest requirements are around security and durability - I'd happily pay a premium even for similar quality. But the alternative has to be there and it has to be real: building new sweatshops in the US to create the same item but then overpriced isn't an improvement.
I'm not judging anyone for these consumer decisions. I'm just noting how some of the arguments people use seem to be incongruous.
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