SOSC 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Anti-Boycott, Ethical Consumerism, Toms Shoes
9 Mar 2020
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Intro: consumption itself is a political process, were participating in idealizing the product through the practices of consumerism. Consumer-citizens: voting at the check out, communicating directly to the producers by accepting their practices or until you change your practices, we will not be purchasing your product". It suggests that every purchase that we make involves morale deliberation. Because we have the ability to purchase these products, that we must make them count. Being oblivious to the other problems, bc by just providing free shoes to those in need, there"s no consideration of the local economy. The families/businesses that produce shoes for their country will be affected by then their g/s wont be needed as much and will also create dependency. The owner of tom"s stated that he"ll want to be providing shoes for people for the rest of their lives. They undermined people"s sense of pride contributing to the image that poor people have.
