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While this is definitely something people should do, be careful offering “the free market will fix it” as a solution – it’s pushed a solution by neoliberals exactly because it doesn’t work.
In this particular case, ethical businesses may have already been pushed out of the market because the only way for them to compete is to either charge more or also rip off their workers and suppliers.
Charging more is obviously the correct solution, but paying more for an ethically produced product isn’t a luxury everyone has because they’re also working for an insatiably greedy company.
Regulations that force companies to behave ethically is the only way out of this hole, which is why neoliberals fiercely oppose them.
While this is definitely something people should do, be careful offering “the free market will fix it” as a solution – it’s pushed a solution by neoliberals exactly because it doesn’t work.
In this particular case, ethical businesses may have already been pushed out of the market because the only way for them to compete is to either charge more or also rip off their workers and suppliers.
Charging more is obviously the correct solution, but paying more for an ethically produced product isn’t a luxury everyone has because they’re also working for an insatiably greedy company.
Regulations that force companies to behave ethically is the only way out of this hole, which is why neoliberals fiercely oppose them.