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Message: <blockquote data-quote="RangerWickett" data-source="post: 9394026" data-attributes="member: 63">There is no ethical consumption in capitalism. If I buy my mom flowers, even if it's a nice gesture, I'm still engaging in a system where the worth of money is dependent on its use as a tool by myriad bad efforts.The currency, sure, isn't literally tormented souls, but the dollars in the ledger often are tied to labor done by people in precarious positions, being exploited by those who oversee them, doing work that damages the environment or that actively denies resources to those who most need them in favor of those who can afford them.By spending your own dollars, you legitimize the value of a dollar, and thus legitimize the unethical use it has been put to. But if you don't spend dollars, how do you live in this society?You can't hate someone for having no choice but to use money in our modern system. If they don't, they starve, or go homeless.But you can sure criticize the flaws of the system.Hate the game, not the player.</blockquote>