This kind of hyperbole is just virtue signalling. You want to tell us what a great person you are because clearly you think about all this and you've fixed it by not exploiting anyone else.
In your rush to excoriate someone for being a part of the 1%, you've forgotten that you're easily in the 1% of people living on earth and we're all connected thanks to global trade. All the things you've said apply equally to you. You can't tell us with certainty about the living conditions of everyone who made your shoes, your phone or your means of transport.
Were Buddha and Jesus virtue signalling too, or is there a chance that they were actually on to something? A concept worth repeating for thousands of years, an idea that points to a deep and non-obvious and hugely important truth.
I'm not excoriating anyone. Pointing out that the generationally rich need to ignore a vast amount of inequality to feel good about fucking around in their megayachts shouldn't be this controversial.
As for the wild assumptions about my shoes, and my transport; did I touch a nerve? What a bizarre line of attack. Why would owning a phone disqualify me from having an opinion on the absurd levels of inequality which support the lifestyles of the generationally .1%?
They weren't virtue signalling. But to the best of my knowledge, Buddha and Jesus didn't use smartphones made in China, shoes from Vietnam, shirts from Bangladesh or cars from Mexico. Which you do.
> Why would owning a phone disqualify me from having an opinion on the absurd levels of inequality which support the lifestyles of the generationally .1%?
Lmao, you are the generationally wealthy global 1%. That's my point! You just don't realise it because you only compare yourself to the people around you and tell yourself "well, I'm doing ok, better than some, not as good as others" without realising how privileged you are. Everything you were saying about the other commenter from your high horse applies equally to you, it's just that you don't realise it.
And any talk of "well, let's keep the discussion to my country alone" only works in a fantasy land where global trade doesn't exist. You enjoy your high standard of living thanks to the labourers working in sweat shops making your inexpensive clothes.
By all means talk about the plight of workers. Just mind your pronouns though. Talk about us and what we need to do instead of villainizing some other group, like we have no culpability in this.
> did I touch a nerve?
Not really, I'm lucky to be top 10% of the country I live in. But the world as a whole? Easily 1%. The difference between us is that I don't blind myself to the rest of the world, and condescend to others on how they should comport themselves.
> Buddha and Jesus didn't use smartphones made in China, shoes from Vietnam, shirts from Bangladesh or cars from Mexico. Which you do.
The semi-ironic thing about this is that it's actually more expensive (in the vast majority of cases) to get shoes or shirts made in the US or a Western European country than in Bangladesh or Vietnam.
In fact, amongst some of the more well off members of my society, the fashionable thing to do is get locally made shirts which cost easily 3-10X what cheaper shirts made by exploited foreign workers cost.
> Buddha and Jesus didn't use smartphones made in China, shoes from Vietnam, shirts from Bangladesh or cars from Mexico. Which you do.
> Lmao, you are the generationally wealthy global 1%.
> you only compare yourself to the people around you
> Everything you were saying about the other commenter from your high horse applies equally to you
You keep making these assumptions about me. Could you stop? It's extremely disingenuous.
Nothing I have said denies global trade, or exploitation in the supply chain of consumer goods.
> mind your pronouns though. Talk about us and what we need to do instead of villainizing some other group, like we have no culpability in this.
Friendo, the .1% are fucking us, in myriad ways. One of their most effective strategies is getting people to victim blame themselves; and I think you've taken the bait.
In your rush to excoriate someone for being a part of the 1%, you've forgotten that you're easily in the 1% of people living on earth and we're all connected thanks to global trade. All the things you've said apply equally to you. You can't tell us with certainty about the living conditions of everyone who made your shoes, your phone or your means of transport.