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by anigbrowl 2521 days ago
No, I don't want extra choice if it comes at the expense of exploitation. I don't want to waste my time having to assess every product and vendor for ethical quality, I want to know that when I'm purchasing everyday goods and services that I can rely on a certain baseline level of equity across the entire commercial marketplace. It creates economic inefficiency by introducing unwanted information asymmetries into the market that hurt both consumers and labor.