JJHinge

Unions and blue collar culture are largely coming back into favor with young people at the same time as dissatisfaction with corporations and white collar life is reaching capacity. Whether this will cause a long-term culture shift remains to be seen, but I sure hope it does, I'd love to have a job with any benefits like my parents had.

How can we get American / European laypeople to actually care about these things? Seems like even people who care about social justice causes will gladly boycott business like Chik Fil A that lobby against human rights, but turn right around and drink their Nestle water with a pack of M&M's while wearing all Nike clothes. When I try to talk to almost anyone about how just in the last few decades slavery has become omnipresent in the consumer supply chain, it's as if it all goes in one ear and out the other and they want to turn it back to more politically correct talking points. And frankly, I care way more about policing slavery than policing domestic social issues, so it's especially frustrating to me that other peoples' priorities seem to be the opposite.

Food processors pay for more advertising than almost all other corporations. In addition, the unfathomable size of consumer product holding companies means that almost everyone buys shit that's connected to slavery regularly, so it's hard to rile people up about this when there's almost no realistic way to resist it day-to-day. At least we can always buy slavery-free chocolate and drink water from the tap.

This took me back; I can see myself again in the store asking my mom to buy me those bands. I would find loose ones all over my town, and add them to my collection.

My school banned them and everyone said it was because kids were wearing dozens at a time, cutting off their circulation in their wrists. Do you as the inventor think that was justified?