I think, most of the times, those "call outs" are about making themselves look moral and beyond reproach by putting someone else down. People who buy things, anything is contributing to human suffering and it really stinks. It's just the pot calling the kettle black. And trying to make one out to be worse is nonsense because we know, we know that the critical one is buying stuff, using energy and "wasting money."
The good side. If anyone buys something, that money goes to someone else. It doesn't just disappear. It pays someone's wages, helps pay someone's rent, feeds a kid, buys them a toy and ultimately ends up in some multi-billionaire's pile of money where it really will go to waste - never to see the economy again.
Ok, that's probably going too far lol.
But, unlike most of the things we buy, we can enjoy the toys and then resell them and get some of that money back. We are keeping them from going into a landfill and they will, eventually belong to someone else. We are only taking care of them for a short lifetime.
I do support laws that will reduce human suffering and help the planet. I think that's really important. We should be able to buy things knowing that we aren't doing damage somewhere else. It's not at all transparent and it should be.
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