Maybe the real issues emerge from capitalist system rules and incentives and the current tech industry is just shaped and emerged as a result?
Almost nothing in the world offers this path. Most tech rebuffs & rejects interest. It's a very very long path to learning programming & shell before one can begin to reverse engineer & peak behind the veil on what tech about us does.
Without observability, there is no hope. Tech has to start. Tech has to open the possibility of visibility. Then we can start to judge.
Additionally consumerism is something that we all can influence with our credit cards. Capitalism is largely controlled by large nameless corporations.
Also, consumers get manipulated to buy into black boxes all the time. Nobody wants to know how their sausage is made but everyone would buy one. A company that is perfectly transparent about their supply chain would fail.
Manipulation has to do with education and sources of information. But as long as the notion that happiness can only be found in purchasing products, then not much will change.
Perhaps poverty can be a good thing.
I wonder whether there could be FOSS business intelligence to a degree that the most likely business relationships of entities will be estimated and published, automatically. And then companies that actually supply data about their supply chains etc. will have a marketing advantage.
[0] you cannot organize this vote, since there are anti-boycott laws
Boycott could also include purchasing an EV - thereby the consumer is boycotting the oil industry. Meaning there does not necessarily need to be transparency of the supply chain to make a consumption vote.
I'm having difficulty parsing this part. What does this mean?
If consumers don't purchase the products produced by the capitalist factories then the system would come to a standstill.
(I am thinking of the companies running/ordering from the factories not necessarily the factories themselves, i.e. Chinese factory.)
This means that as a consumer, I can influence the system by not purchasing certain products. The larger consumer group, the larger the change.
> If consumers don't purchase the products produced by the capitalist factories then the system would come to a standstill.
What about buying from a socialist factory? Is socialism also just the producer?
> This means that as a consumer, I can influence the system by not purchasing certain products. The larger consumer group, the larger the change.
This seems like you are talking about markets, not really capitalism.
> If consumers don't purchase the products produced by the capitalist factories then the system would come to a standstill.
it kind of makes one ask which came first...
This account of history of money is largely viewed as bunk by historians since there exist no evidence or description of a barter economy in our history.