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Well all know Nike sucks, but they do make great skate shoes. If core brands made products as comfortable and durable as blazers premiums and dunks then I’d gladly buy from them. Brands like Last resort AB are on the right track, their shoes are very similar to Blazers and have a great sole too, so if you hate nike buy from them instead. And finally, caring about skating is fine, but maybe we should focus our efforts on hating and clowning Oil and has companies instead of shoe makers considering the current predicament we’re in. When climate change gets bad enough you won’t have any Nike shoes, Skate shops or Internet forum to complain about the former fucking over the latter.
Cocaine may be fucking amazing, but I’m not going to try it because it’s also harvested with exploited labor.
Have some fucking standards.
But at the same time, it’s not about clowning one kind of exploitation over another, it’s about recognizing the pressures that all companies have that encourage them to exploit, be it Nike, Exxon, Phizer, Monsanto, or whatever.
They all exist in a framework that encourages exploiting other people, animals, and ecosystems for personal profit.
Recognize that some companies like Nike lead the way in exploitation, but above all, recognize it’s the framework we exist in promotes that kind of behavior.
Danny, your last sentence hits the nail on the head.
And it applies to almost every single thing we consume.
Why is that? And can we do better?
Why is that?
Simple, because the system we live in is built around exploitation
Can we do better?
Nope, the only way you can do better is by burning the whole thing down, good luck though, the system has a layer of defences that will try to keep it intact by any means necessary. But hey! The way things are, the planet itself will take care of it, give or take a few decades. Cheers.
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