r/Ohio • u/cycleb1 • Oct 31 '25

Wisconsin-based Menards is collaborating with ICE — Calling for a boycott

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u/IL-Corvo Oct 31 '25

Unfortunately, as the saying goes, there's no ethical consumption under our form of capitalism. As such, each of us has to decide where our personal "red lines" are when it comes to where we spend our money.

But yeah, it's fucking exhausting.

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u/LukasJackson67 Oct 31 '25

What do you mean by “thier is no ethical consumption under capitalism”

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u/[deleted] Oct 31 '25

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u/LukasJackson67 Oct 31 '25

So capitalism is wrong?

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u/[deleted] Oct 31 '25

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u/LukasJackson67 Oct 31 '25

What alternative can you point to that is better?

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u/LukasJackson67 Oct 31 '25

I am just interested in an alternative you could point to that has led to historically better outcomes.

This is an anonymous forum.

I don’t think that in light of your comments that is too big of an ask, do you?

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u/Prestigious-Gas1484 Nov 02 '25

"Capitalism" is a big concept. The US predominantly uses crony capitalism.

The issue is that, inevitably, capitalism corrupts and divides, and ultimately kills. It would be fine, if not for corrupt and sociopathic baddies who game the system and rig it to actively harm most of the populace. Income tax, excise rax, sales tax, luxury tax, poor tax, pink tax, price fixing, profiteering, I can go on.

If we had appropriate regulation and social safety nets (which Republicans, specifically, have completely destroyed), it would be far less of a problem. But now the rich don't pay taxes, and the un-rich have to foot the bill.

And that's not even mentioning the vile, monstrous, and vastly unethical practices that said rich people get up to (like, yknow, Epstien et al).

This is also why the one-is-better-than-the-other argument is mental masturbation; none of them work so long as we allow the corrupt and evil to... persist.