I am on record as being skeptical of the notion that if you shop very carefully, you can make society better. “Conscious consumption” is not a tool for structural change, and any election that requires you to “vote with your wallet” is always won by the people with the thickest wallets (statistically speaking, that’s not you)
— The petty (but undeniable) delights of cultivating unoptimizability as a habit, by Cory Doctorow @pluralistic@mamot.fr