yes. but there are still ways to shift towards sustainable circular economies. you want to focus on locally produced products, and locally owned businesses. best yet is locally produced products sold by locally owned businesses. for example: it’s good for me to buy local produce from Kroger, it’s better for me to buy local produce from the farmer’s market.
obviously no one can live perfectly given that we live in a nightmare hellscape. it’s not about being perfect, it’s about taking steps to improve your impact and to make it more possibne for others to make these considered decisions
They’re getting taxes no matter what. If you just purchase American goods because you don’t want to give them money from tariffs, then all you’ve done is demonstrate that tariffs work since now American businesses are selling more.
Ideally, if corporations lose enough business, they’ll actually put pressure on the govt (of course, they might just roll over based on how things have gone so far). In any case, this isn’t even really a sacrifice on my end since a lot of American products are kind of shoddy.
Same. At this point, I’m only buying stuff that’s local to my community from small businesses. I don’t want to help American mega-corps, and I don’t want to contribute to any tariffs going to fund the government.
I bought some supplies from a local business recently…
Then I found out after unpacking that some of the components were made from supplies by Kaiser Aluminum, a company that assists in genocide via military contracts.
Unfortunately I can’t return the things I’ve used, but I will be informing the owner that I won’t be making any more purchases specifically due to their ordering things from KA.
I mean shit as an American I have a rising anti american sentiment lol
I’m mainly purchasing things made outside the US at this point.
if it doesn’t help my local community survive, it should help someone else’s local community survive
Aren’t most things imported tho from foreign corporations?
yes. but there are still ways to shift towards sustainable circular economies. you want to focus on locally produced products, and locally owned businesses. best yet is locally produced products sold by locally owned businesses. for example: it’s good for me to buy local produce from Kroger, it’s better for me to buy local produce from the farmer’s market.
obviously no one can live perfectly given that we live in a nightmare hellscape. it’s not about being perfect, it’s about taking steps to improve your impact and to make it more possibne for others to make these considered decisions
Isn’t that supporting the regime via tariffs?
They’re getting taxes no matter what. If you just purchase American goods because you don’t want to give them money from tariffs, then all you’ve done is demonstrate that tariffs work since now American businesses are selling more.
Ideally, if corporations lose enough business, they’ll actually put pressure on the govt (of course, they might just roll over based on how things have gone so far). In any case, this isn’t even really a sacrifice on my end since a lot of American products are kind of shoddy.
Same. At this point, I’m only buying stuff that’s local to my community from small businesses. I don’t want to help American mega-corps, and I don’t want to contribute to any tariffs going to fund the government.
I bought some supplies from a local business recently…
Then I found out after unpacking that some of the components were made from supplies by Kaiser Aluminum, a company that assists in genocide via military contracts.
Unfortunately I can’t return the things I’ve used, but I will be informing the owner that I won’t be making any more purchases specifically due to their ordering things from KA.