In all seriousness, I'd be willing to accept paying for products produced outside of the direct funding of enemy organizations. It's why I don't have a MasterCard. Now, with China, there's a real problem. Private companies basically don't exist. It's hard to buy a Chinese project that won't directly support explicit anti-western military objectives by the CCP.
You basically have to support a product produced by the Falun Gong apparatus in order to support a non-CCP Chinese product. They're an explicit enemy of the CCP and their supporters will be imprisoned and have their organs removed, so they make it a life-long objective to defy the CCP. It's one of the few safe options. Last time I checked, they don't make video games.
Its an unfortunate down side of both the modernized version of capitalism and globalism in that you cannot truly escape funding some form of your enemy short of just ceasing to buy anything and live off the grid.
Its why a lot of boycotts are nonsensical, because its literally "I am only against it if I have to be made aware of it." Valid morally, but not consistently principled either.
While I understand the flow of money will not be entirely segregated, I can still do well to not explicitly fund them. No sense in using something if there is an alternative available.
Libertarians: I’m fine with financially supporting hostile subversives who hate me as long as they are properly incorporated and savvy enough to obscure their direct connections to government (which they fund and control). And if I’m to be replaced by foreigners, gosh darn it, then it had better be legal!
Which western corporations do you view as sufficiently moral to be worthy of your money?
I’m fine with financially supporting hostile subversives who hate me as long as they are properly incorporated and savvy enough to obscure their direct connections to government
In all seriousness, I'd be willing to accept paying for products produced outside of the direct funding of enemy organizations. It's why I don't have a MasterCard. Now, with China, there's a real problem. Private companies basically don't exist. It's hard to buy a Chinese project that won't directly support explicit anti-western military objectives by the CCP.
You basically have to support a product produced by the Falun Gong apparatus in order to support a non-CCP Chinese product. They're an explicit enemy of the CCP and their supporters will be imprisoned and have their organs removed, so they make it a life-long objective to defy the CCP. It's one of the few safe options. Last time I checked, they don't make video games.
Its an unfortunate down side of both the modernized version of capitalism and globalism in that you cannot truly escape funding some form of your enemy short of just ceasing to buy anything and live off the grid.
Its why a lot of boycotts are nonsensical, because its literally "I am only against it if I have to be made aware of it." Valid morally, but not consistently principled either.
While I understand the flow of money will not be entirely segregated, I can still do well to not explicitly fund them. No sense in using something if there is an alternative available.
Of course, you should always try to do so. Its just not feasible to truly achieve the goal in any sense.
Libertarians: I’m fine with financially supporting hostile subversives who hate me as long as they are properly incorporated and savvy enough to obscure their direct connections to government (which they fund and control). And if I’m to be replaced by foreigners, gosh darn it, then it had better be legal!
Which western corporations do you view as sufficiently moral to be worthy of your money?
No one said this.