I know there are similar communities like !buyitforlife@slrpnk.net about finding products that you don’t break after a year, and any number of buy<insert_country_here> communities. I’m looking for a community specifically for finding reputable products that aren’t sold on Amazon, regardless of where the seller or buyer is, and regardless of the ethos of the seller beyond making quality products.
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There’s also !deamazon@piefed.social, but that’s more about general anti-Amazon sentiment than specifically helping steer people away from Amazon’s online retail monopoly.
No idea, but it’s great that many of y’all and us are doing this. Buy local, buy from worker co-ops, buy from ethical countries!
I’d recommend to also use Buybeaver & No Thanks, to boycot the US and the like. Generally I exclude Russia & Belarus, most of the Middle East (Israel included), and North & Middle Africa.
What countries are ethical??
Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Finland, Iceland, Costa Rica, Netherlands, Belgium, Canada, Portugal, New Zealand, Slovenia, to name a few, are relatively ethical. I’d also give props to Brazil for managing to stave off an authoritarian coup. Denmark in my opinion scores the best of them all.
I’d at the very least exclude these;
There’s probably a lot more, but yeah.
* If it were possible, I’d only invest in states that have a solid labour and civil rights’ record, without giving a penny to Trump and the fossil & military industry. New England (minus New Hampshire), the West coast, Hawaii, Minnesota, to take a few, would be best.
Sweden is swinging to fascism, and they have the largest arms industry per capita in the world. They literally profit from unethical wars.
Norway is drilling and exporting oil, which is profiting from mass extinction and one of the biggest existential threats to most life on earth.
Canada usually joins the US in their unethical wars for oil. Also, their tar sands project in Alberta is one of the most ecologically devistating projects on the planet. And also profiting from contributing to the climate catastrophe.
Belgium, by god, their wealth is built from the severed hands of workers in the Congo.
Counterpoints;
Agree on the swinging to fascism being problematic, however, Sweden has a Nordic model and generally is pretty inclusive, Norway has been moving away aplenty from oil (most of its vehicles drive electric now and energy production is largely renewables), Belgium’s wealth is no longer built upon that.
Alberta is a stain on Canada, and I think it should be addressed by urbanising that state, plus tackling socioeconomic inequality and the bands farmers have to oil and gas companies.
What countries in your perspective, would be ethical? And don’t say “none”, just say closest to ethical in that case.