People need to start realising that fiction doesn't dictate your ethics, and this means it won't make you GOOD either, just as it can't magically turn you into a criminal. You can read the most moral parables ever written and still be a POS. You can WRITE them and still be a POS
@LoppyRae The original tweet reminds me about the thread on Moo Deng’s zoo.
It’s always advocating for environmental concern and conditions of a zoo, or in this case a factory, without doing the necessary research to realise a lot of it is based in xenophobia and racism.
@LoppyRae "Made in the USA" also does not automatically denote it was made ethically the way people assume it does. Prison labor camps are a multi billion dollar industry in America. Low income neighborhoods are overpoliced and then sent to jail where they get paid cents on the hour.
A majority of factories, even the ones in US, are nothing more than middlemen for Chinese factories. For example, US plush companies will get their plush patterns cut and sewn in China, then stuffed and finished in the United States, doubling their prices in the process.
Here’s the truth about “Made in the (X)”
Depending on a country’s laws, a company only has to declare the country in which the product was assembly. Even luxury brands are manufactured in China, only to be assembled in (let’s say, Italy,) for that coveted “Made in Italy” label.
“Made in China” holds a negative connotation, and most people assume that all Chinese products are cheap garbage. But this belief doesn’t hold true anymore.
As China’s industrialization improves, so do its products. A lot of factories take great pride in their work.