Senior Nike executive resigns after story about her teen son, the sneaker flipper

You still don't define what you mean by ethics or ethical. You reference a living wage, by what standard? None of this is easy or obvious- your ideas don't have clear definitions. I took you for "bad faith" in your initial comment just as you did me, due to how undefined all of this seems. Are you just a suburban anarcho-punk? Buy used clothes, don't directly support unjust manufacturing processes and alter labels so that your garments are anonymous when you can. Are you anarcho-vegan? learn to sew, buy used gear, alter and adjust. Are you anti-civ-pro-pre-ag, move to the rural get a crap job and shoot things, trade labor for clothes, learn to tan hides. Are you politically moderate and want to be ok on normal instagram, shop at thrift stores, accept the fact that your shallow social critiques and life don't match and buy what you need to do what you need. Anyone who says "I tried to be ethical for a whole week but capitalism wouldn't let me" needs to grow up and realize that they live now, in the current context, and that ethics aren't a brand or text on a label or something that will be black and white, good and bad... no one is perfect and no philosophy is comprehensive. I read your "I tried for a week and quit" comment as commonplace bullshit. We can all do better than "trying for a week" to find perfection and life long answers. That is not how the world really works.

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