Yes, exactly why I said it's a platitude. It's thoughtless and trite. I'm saying: consumption is not ethical, no matter which system. There is no ethical consumption.

So the slogan "there is no ethical consumption under capitalism" highlights the fact it's not an individual's fault, and the invidivual is not to blame, when they buy something that unknowingly (or knowingly but out of necessity) brought harm to the people or the environment involved in making the thing.

That's a cop out. It paints consumers as mere puppets or robots who are unable to make choices or decisions that could lead to a reduction of suffering.

In the olden days you could feasibly survive by being a farmer [...]

The good ol' days, how many times have I heard that one. In the good ol' days there was often imperial rule. In the good ol' days, slave trade was the norm. In the good older days, your little town or village could be overrun by wandering horde of Mongols or even just the next village over that had a different tribe. In the good ol' days, if you were disabled you were fucked, if you had a different skin color you were fucked, if you were a woman you were figuratively and literally fucked, if you got sick any "incurable disease" you were not fucked, you were dead, if you couldn't work anymore your offspring had to tend to you and if those didn't exist or weren't willing to you were fucked, and so on.

It's nice to romanticise "simpler" days after watching "Gone With Wind", but life back then was hard af. It was backbreaking. People died at much higher rates than now with little to show for it. People still live absolutely miserable lives, but the rate thereof is much lower in the countries exploiting others.

But then things got more complicated, and capitalism encourages cutting ethical corners in favour of profit

Capitalism doesn't encourage anything. It's one of the natural products of human greed. Any other system created by humans is flawed and infected the human disease, doomed to create suffering and torment. The only question is how much. Whether capitalism generates more than other systems is debatable, but to claim that there is "ethical consumption" in any other living system is wishful thinking. It doesn't exist.

[–] TranscendentalEmpire@lemm.ee 1 points 6 minutes ago

Yes, exactly why I said it's a platitude. It's thoughtless and trite. I'm saying: consumption is not ethical, no matter which system. There is no ethical consumption.

That's a false dichotomy.......even if we agreed with your definition of all consumption being unethical, it wouldn't mean that there aren't different levels of unethical practices used to produce those consumables.

All consumption being unethical does not mean that all forms of production are equally unethical. If that's the case you wouldn't really have a problem with sending the kids back to the mines.

It paints consumers as mere puppets or robots who are unable to make choices or decisions that could lead to a reduction of suffering.

Can you point to a time in history where a general boycott of a dangerous or harmful product was successful without the help of government intervention?

Any other system created by humans is flawed and infected the human disease, doomed to create suffering and torment.

And apparently that doesn't happen under capitalism? Then what exactly are you bitching about plastic for?

"ethical consumption" in any other living system is wishful thinking. It doesn't exist.

Again, your argument is based on a forced false dichotomy.

Not to mention that it seems like you are really just a libertarian angry at consumers for participating in the "free market".

You can't simultaneously believe that the free market is the best way to regulate the economy, but upset at the people for their consumption habits in a free market.