saying “there is no ethical consumption under late capitalism” is a platitude. if you don’t want to at least try to make the world better for workers until “full communism” is established, by keeping an eye on human rights breaches, strikes, and other news, and avoiding the worst of the worst products if you have the ability to do so, it’s hard to believe that you really care about workers.
there is no activism in which doing nothing is the best option. that’s all.
Not making socially aware consumption choices is not ‘doing nothing’ though. Someone can actually be spending tons and tons of time and energy doing all sorts of activism and education to make the world a better place and can be spending no time or energy on the complicated hellscape of consumption choices.
Voting and consumption choices are to me very similar things: kind of useful but not worth dedicating much of my time and mental energy on. I don’t mind people spending time on it but they’re such low impact decisions that I care very little about whether someone does it, and when people talk about it the first question in my head is ‘so what else do you do?’.
