I see your questions, and I realize it seems like i'm trivializing it... but... I mean, you will only see the "save the world from injustices" view, where as I side with the practical view.
The Diamond company doesn't strive to keep people ignorant. ANY advertising plays up it's good points. No one is like "Dudes, my product is cheaply made and will break as soon as you buy it, but it looks pretty. Buy my shit."
And seriously, the women getting paid less thing is the same as the blacks and whites thing. If white people got paid less than black people, society would be fine with it because "we would be righting wrongs from the past." People bitch about affirmative action and Title IX, but there would be far MORE bitching if they didn't exist. Do I think either are good things? well, No. I think they're stupid. The IDEA is good, but sorry, righting wrongs that happened years ago is pointless (affirmative action) and Cutting men's activities because the women's don't have enough... okay, Africa doesn't have food? No one get's food.
Suzie Smith is your average florist, but Clyde happens to be better. Because he's better, he eventually makes enough money to start a chain, and eventually his shop is the most well known in the world and every florist strives to be a part of it. But the workers wages don't increase, and neither does the little chinese girl's. Eventually Suzie Smith has to shut down because she doesn't know how to compete.
Survival of the Fittest. It's a bitch. But, that's the way the world works.
Are you going to boycott microsoft because bill gates took steve Jobs' ideas? Are people boycotting vista because it looks exactly the same as Mac OSX? Are Macs growing in popularity because they make ethical decisions?
Do you host a book burning party to burn a truly fantastic book written by someone who rapes little girls?
P.S. I'm anonymous... I just keep forgetting to sign in.
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The Diamond company doesn't strive to keep people ignorant. ANY advertising plays up it's good points. No one is like "Dudes, my product is cheaply made and will break as soon as you buy it, but it looks pretty. Buy my shit."
And seriously, the women getting paid less thing is the same as the blacks and whites thing. If white people got paid less than black people, society would be fine with it because "we would be righting wrongs from the past." People bitch about affirmative action and Title IX, but there would be far MORE bitching if they didn't exist. Do I think either are good things? well, No. I think they're stupid. The IDEA is good, but sorry, righting wrongs that happened years ago is pointless (affirmative action) and Cutting men's activities because the women's don't have enough... okay, Africa doesn't have food? No one get's food.
Suzie Smith is your average florist, but Clyde happens to be better. Because he's better, he eventually makes enough money to start a chain, and eventually his shop is the most well known in the world and every florist strives to be a part of it. But the workers wages don't increase, and neither does the little chinese girl's. Eventually Suzie Smith has to shut down because she doesn't know how to compete.
Survival of the Fittest. It's a bitch. But, that's the way the world works.
Are you going to boycott microsoft because bill gates took steve Jobs' ideas? Are people boycotting vista because it looks exactly the same as Mac OSX? Are Macs growing in popularity because they make ethical decisions?
Do you host a book burning party to burn a truly fantastic book written by someone who rapes little girls?
P.S. I'm anonymous... I just keep forgetting to sign in.