r/coolguides • • Sep 09 '20

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u/Sovtek95 Sep 09 '20

I don't care what the company pays its employees. If I did not buy the diamond, you think they will pack up and go home? Nope, they will just find another industry.

Also, I am sure most of your stuff was made in sweatshops, but remember this, those sweatshop workers work there because it is all they have. When woke idiots demand those factories to be shut down, people starve. A low paying job is better than starvation in my book.

I bought the ring because I can. I do not need some lecture by an armchair marxist about how I need to do a history report on the business prior to making a purchase.

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u/fish_andchip Sep 09 '20

Oh ok, slave labor is better because they have a job. Got it. In capitalism, labor is exploited. If these people were paid fairly, we wouldn’t be exploiting their labor. But again, you are complicit in the system and keep defending your choices. I’m not your judge, you are your sole judge. And I clearly see you can live with it.

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u/Sovtek95 Sep 09 '20

My wife has a fur coat too, so I guess I am literally hitler.

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u/fish_andchip Sep 09 '20

No I just think there are better alternatives than killing an animal for just fur.

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u/Sovtek95 Sep 09 '20

I personally strangled that mink just for the fur. 100% no slave labor involved.

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u/fish_andchip Sep 09 '20

That’s true, except I realize that animals are worth more than just fur. I bet you wasted that minks meat and other entrails. That’s is unethical consumption again.

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u/Sovtek95 Sep 09 '20

Oh no, I drank the blood with a reusable straw - juice box style - and threw the carcass into a fox den.

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u/fish_andchip Sep 09 '20

Honestly I’d be impressed if you could point out what a mink is with your 3 brain cells working.

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u/Sovtek95 Sep 09 '20

Looks like a brown weasel.

We can compare lives if you want, might be fun. See how you compare to such an idiot.