[plausibledeny]

How does that help the people in the shipping industry? Let's say you did reduce shipping and therefore there were fewer shipping jobs, the people currently doing this work would lose these jobs and have to find other work. Something which would be even less attractive than shipping. How's that help them?

[forgotmypw17]

It doesn't help them either way, whether you buy stuff or not.

However, it does help you not be comlicit to their treatment.

[plausibledeny]

But clearly for many of them this bad choice is their best option (unfortunately). So the goal isn't to improve their lives but to assuage our guilt?

Companies that use these services could exert pressure for better conditions, just like some have done with other companies in their supply chain.

[forgotmypw17]

I think there is a difference between guilt and complicity, though they are related.

I have somewhat limited agency in this world, limited to the little bit of money I spend, the movement of my arms and legs, the words I speak, the things I look at, and my thoughts and intentions.

[Igelau]

Except the companies are doing this because they are already strapped for cash.

Willingly trying to avoid global shipping would actually make you more complicit.

[inawarminister]

Not really, in a free market consumers directing their consumption away from a sector does not make them complicit in the abuses or bankruptcy of that sector.

They don't have direct relationship to that sector anymore, after all.