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A Boring Dystopia
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So if I bought a shirt made from cotton picked by slaves, that would've been perfectly fine? If I buy chocolate harvested with child labor, or blood diamonds, that's all fine?
This whole production-focused morality is entirely self-serving and has nothing at all to do with class consciousness. Many people involved in the meat industry are workers just trying to make a living. You just don't want to deal with the inconvenience of these issues yourself.
Even if it's theoretically possible to create a system that doesn't depend on supply and demand, it is very much a thing in the world we actually live in.
Complete nonsense. If they could just "get more subsidies" whenever they felt like it, they'd get them now, until they couldn't get anymore. Which is... where we're at. This is magical thinking.
Even if one particular worker-owned farm decided to do that, it wouldn't change anything. The consumers looking for cheaper meat would simply go to the farms willing to use harmful treatment.
Why does that logic only work one way and not the other?
Go read the other thread where I've already typed my opinions over the topics discussed and also maybe try reading theory. You'll learn a thing or two about the reductive-ness of arguing over individual action of consumers instead of placing the blame on
If you think focusing on the owners and how they control the means of production is not based in class consciousness you're not worth talking to.