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Ya and if we all lived in the forest the world wouldn't be heating up. If we all gave our money to charity there wouldn't be any homeless. If we all didn't go to work the capitalist system would collapse.
But you know as well as I do that it isn't going to happen. Like I said, this individualistic approach to "changing things" is used as a deliberate distraction.
It's meant to take advantage of people's sense of responsibility. Nothing will ever change. If people stopped using Amazon then Walmart would step in to fill the void. It's a Medusa's head. The only way to ensure worker's rights is to write it into the law. Anything else is moral grandstanding. Which I think is even more distasteful when done to working class people.