Abject Consumerism

What are things most consumers don't think about most of the time?

• The working conditions of the laborers who cultivate, raise, mine, refine, forge, build, transport, display, advertise and sell, the goods consumers want.
• Wages
• Benefits
• Hours per shift, week, month or pay period.
• Physical safety standards
• Discrimination, favoritism, cronyism, sexual harassment.
• The impact on the environment where the raw materials are extracted.
• Erosion, flooding, fertilizer runoff, animal feces runoff, chemical contamination, air pollution, adjacent property values, 
• The waste generated by what is left over after the goods are consumed.
• Plastic in the oceans and landfills. chemicals seeping into rivers, aquifers and water tables.
• The sustainability of the resources from which the goods derive.
• Over-fishing depleted the main source of food in Somalia, leaving many with no choice but to become pirates.
• Deforestation of the Amazon and Canada.
• Depletion of soil nutrients.
• Drying up water reservoirs and rivers.