Just to be fair - I think these women are spending a ridiculous amount of money on purses:

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47. So being virtuous requires subsidizing outsourced sweatshop labor?

Because your cut off for a purse means that is exactly where they are going to come from. Buying something made in the US or Europe by craftsmen making a living wage is disgusting, but subsidizing a global system of low wage sweatshop production is virtuous?

What about limits on expenses for electronics, computer games, etc . .. Or is that kind of consumption okay because you choose to spend your money that way? Is it just women who don't have a right to spend the money they earn?


This moral outrage stuff is hypocritical. This whole poutrage is about people wagging their fingers at others while reflecting not one iota on their own consumption or role in the economy or what it is they are even advocating. Some people don't share your desire to subsidize near slave wages in places like China and Bangladesh--modes of consumption that actually produce poverty.