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Would you buy it or not?

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  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    Don't buy
    It certainly is a cruel world Obe, or at least it has some cruel people in it. 
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    Too true and so much of it thoughtless rather than psycopathic.
    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
    Plato
  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    edited October 2018
    Don't buy
    There's not much you can buy on Amazon that you can't buy on Ebay. No squeezing of sellers there. @Del_Griffith, there's always a moral choice.
  • raisingirlraisingirl Posts: 7,093
    Don't buy
    Lyn said:
    I find it strange that people will avoid amazon, dyson, certain clothes/supermarket shops but will buy all the battery operated tools they can get. 

    That's one of those cases where there isn't a good option though. In modern life, if you're working at least, you can't not have a computer and a phone. If you buy diesel or petrol powered tools then the politics of oil is horrendous. Hand tools only get you so far and I do use them as much as I possibly can but my knees are mortal and fail me now and then.

    All you can do is try to balance the use, the politics, the planet and the need to find the best compromise. So you have an iPad and try to use it for everything, much as I have battery powered tools with only one battery that I can swap between 4 or 5 different bits of kit. It's not perfect. If someone could come up with a 'fair trade' badge equivalent for batteries, I'd buy it.
    Gardening on the edge of Exmoor, in Devon

    “It's still magic even if you know how it's done.” 
  • KT53KT53 Posts: 9,016
    You will be able to find examples of bad treatment of workers wherever they live in the world and that includes the UK.  That doesn't mean that all employers in a country treat their workers badly. Are we to stop purchasing anything made in the UK because of the way a few companies treat their employees?

    By lumping them all in together as 'bad employers', not only are you being extremely unfair but you are quite probably putting people out of work completely.
  • DyersEndDyersEnd Posts: 730
    Buy
    Perhaps people prefer to work in dangerous/unpleasant conditions rather than starve.
  • AnniDAnniD Posts: 12,585
    You have certainly started a debate @B3 :)
  • Papi JoPapi Jo Posts: 4,254
    AnniD said:
    You have certainly started a debate @B3 :)
    Earlier on I wrote "I'm afraid I don't understand the purpose of this poll."
    Now I see that the purpose was to start a heated debate. Super! ;)
  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    Don't buy
    DyersEnd said:
    Perhaps people prefer to work in dangerous/unpleasant conditions rather than starve.
    I’m not sure 4 year babies do! 
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    How child friendly is your iPad?
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-35311456 
    Devon.
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