| ▲ | Night_Thastus 5 days ago | |||||||
People love to claim the moral high ground, believing themselves so much better. So much more noble. So much smarter. But at the end of the day, they always do the exact same thing - buy whatever is cheaper. Doesn't matter if it's produced with slave labor, or child labor, or the product of corporate government coups. They put all that out of their mind, and just buy the product. They rationalize it or conveniently forget it or just pretend it doesn't apply to them. Whatever will get them past it. A similar topic: Does anyone think things like solar and wind are being used out of the goodness of anyone's heart? Concern for the next generations? A desire to give clean air to our youth? Sympathy for sufferers of all of the horrible diseases and respiratory problems? Concern about lands lost to rising seas? No. It's because they got cheaper than fossil fuels. Anything else is fantasy. | ||||||||
| ▲ | albumen 4 days ago | parent [-] | |||||||
You do realise there are different categories of users? There’s consistent evidence that early adopters and ethically motivated consumers accept price premiums to align purchases with values, identity, or status; only later—when technologies mature—do cost considerations dominate for mainstream buyers. Solar PV: https://research.chalmers.se/publication/520553/file/520553_... EVs: https://ia600108.us.archive.org/view_archive.php?archive=/24... Renewable energy premiums: https://research-hub.nrel.gov/en/publications/will-consumers... Fair Trade: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Shared%20Documents/conferences/2... | ||||||||
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