By: Liv

In reply to Riese.

I kept wanting to add caveats like ‘BUT AUTOSTRADDLE DOES DO THIS TO MY KNOWLEDGE AS FAR AS YOU ALL CAN WITHIN THE CONFINES OF THIS WHOLE SHITTY SYSTEM’ but felt silly. But yeah, I just think it’s telling that the economists he’s cited as reading are notorious right wing/free market thinkers. The kinda ‘corporate accountability’ practices (like giving a certain amount to ‘ethical’ organisations/giving employees a certain amount of hours free to do community work/blah blah) that Whole Foods and similar organisations do end up whitewashing their corporate records and, ultimately, don’t really ‘change’ the system. They are often slightly ineffective salves for problems that they themselves are deeply complicit in. Blah blah blah. I am one of those ‘intellectuals’ who just loves to undermine people’s faith in capitalism blah blah blah.

But, yeah, we’re pretty much stuck in this system (albeit with space for difference/resistance of types) and I totally feeeeeel the bit you quoted. But yeah, Whole Foods can go do one.

Also, un-relatedly, Melissa Gira Grant <3 <3 <3