I feel like this is one of the finer points to convince people of, and doesn't have as many resources to explain it to someone who's been indoctrinated in Capitalism their whole life.

  • Saint [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    Indirect vs Direct exploitation?

    Yes this tends to be what I think, but I can't come to a consistent position on how and why it being indirect matters.

    I don’t know I’ve never considered the question before. Is the stock market even real? Does the buying and selling on it directly affect the workers in a negative way? Is it a meaningful thing that participation in directly creates exploitation that wouldn’t be there anyway?

    It's not so much that you're supporting the stock market as that you're owning a chunk of a company, whose workers' labour you're now capitalising on.