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Challenges of Making Ethical Products Affordable Under Capitalism

By

Smith Mordak

11mo ago· 9 min readenOpinion

Summary

The article discusses the challenge of making ethical and sustainable products affordable under capitalism due to systemic issues. Designers and brands face criticism for high prices despite their ethical practices.

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Ethical stuff – made without sweatshops, without extractive or polluting supply chains, and without exploitation of global discrepancies in wage expectations or regulations – is more expensive.
There's not much that can be done without systemic change.
Designers and brands producing more ethical products are sometimes criticised for their high prices.
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Designers and brands producing more ethical products are sometimes criticised for their high prices, but there's not much that can be done without systemic change, writes Smith Mordak.

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