Amy’s Kitchen, a case-study in the problems with consumerism

You are not an ambulatory wallet.

Cory Doctorow

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A blurred image of a woman working on a food assembly line; in the foreground is a human male figure; from the waist down, he is a normal pair of legs and a hand holding a shopping bag bearing the logo of Amy’s Kitchen; from the waist up, he is the engraved portrait of Benjamin Franklin from a US $100 bill. Image: Anthony Quintano (modified) https://www.flickr.com/photos/quintanomedia/51707550353 CC BY 2.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/

As theories of change go, consumerism has a lot going for it. “Voting with your dollars” cuts out the middleman: rather than voting for a politician and hoping that they do the right thing, you can just reward good companies directly by buying their products (and punish bad companies by not buying their…

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