| "Next time I make a purchase of a chip, or a product using it, I may check on this to the extent of my ability. I might not go without a laptop if I can't acquire it without causing harm, but I will certainly prefer to minimize such harm if possible." Very reasonable position. "My hypothesis is that if you give people easy ways to do the right thing, they tend to value doing so[1]." My experience in activism for civil rights, privacy, less corruption, and so on suggests people just don't care. It has to literally take almost no mental effort in America or most won't lift a finger. Unless it's one of those hot button issues. They'll at least talk a lot about it on Facebook while some take action. Apathy reigns supreme here, though, as we've seen time after time. "(even if "we are better that the competition... because we decided to recently stop funding warlords" is perhaps a fairly low standard)" Haha. Low standards reign, too. "involving regulations and government incentives and treaties, and stronger governance developing in affected countries;" TPP shows it going in the opposite direction with more concentration of power into elites' hands and reinforcement of prior stuff. Individual companies might do better, though, hopefully. |