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by saveferris
852 days ago
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Off the top of my head....
-How was the labor sourced for those services?
-Child Labor, illegal immigrant labor?
-What are the working conditions for the labor?, is it sweatshop
-what inputs go into the goods/services?
-what do they do with their waste?
-where do the inputs come from? My country, another country, my town, a town in my state... you may think the government plays a role to enforce some of these, and they do to a point... You can go on in your own head about all the things behind that simple exchange of money for something. If it's a perfectly competitive market sure, that may work but there aren't many if any markets in the US that are that level of competitive. A personal anecdote for you. My uncle owns an auto parts re-manufacturer, so they rebuild car parts and sell them. I worked there a lot growing up. The normal input is buying "cores" from service stations....your starter motor isn't working and you get a new one, that old one is sold to someone like my uncle who refurbs it. Often we had people come by with very clearly stolen parts....should we have just exchanged money for those? This ranged from a tweaker who would show up with one part, to full scale organized theft rings with pallets of parts... So, do we buy those since the price is much, much better? There is a an ethical decision there... |
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