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Most effectively, by deliberately not shopping at Walmart, Giant, Safeway but at smaller shops. Reducing barriers for mom&pop shops to hook into gig services and making sure they aren't being ripped off by the middleman (by removing the middleman? who was working on decentralized delivery? I forgot.)

You'll pay more but you'll be happier (and potentially, healthier)

I wonder if we have historical examples of consumers simply making better choices leading to better business practices

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128 sats \ 1 reply \ @optimism 21 Dec

Hmm... fair trade chocolate. See https://fairtrade.net/us-en/why-fairtrade/impact/impact-stories/tonys-chocolonely.html - in NL there is barely any slavery-chocolate left - all chocolate across all outlets is fair trade (and expensive)

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I've never heard about slavery chocolate. What are the specifics?

I've just been reading King Leopold's Ghost, though (slavery in the Congo, for harvesting rubber) so I was learning about how in the 1890's through about WWI there was basically slavery in the Congo, set up by King Leopold of Belgium.

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