Showing posts with label worker. Show all posts
Showing posts with label worker. Show all posts

Tuesday, October 16, 2018

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.