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Originally Posted by mr ploppy
It isn't just choice that you give up in return for your very small discount on price. There's the social consequences too. Intensive/factory farming, child labour in India, higher unemployment as suppliers find their profit margins squeezed ever harder, environmental impacts of people having to drive out of town to get to the mega-stores, the massive volume of food that we throw away while people in third world countries are starving to death, these are all consequences of unregulated competition. And once you have everything whittled down to a handful of corporations you get price fixing anyway, so your small discount on price gets even smaller or disappears completely.
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This is getting into fairy-tale territory.
So buying a book from a local store rather than Amazon will prevent child labour in India?