4mo ago

What's one brand whose products you can always trust?

(I'm trying to adjust my shopping habits for quality, long-lasting goods from reputable brands. This isn't some hailcorporate thing)

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3M does tape and chemicals better than most anyone.
If it's supposed to be sticky: 3M over anything else.
- How 3M Executives Convinced a Scientist the Forever Chemicals She Found in Human Blood Were Safe
  https://www.propublica.org/article/3m-forever-chemicals-pfas-pfos-inside-story
  I'll just leave this here without further comment
  
  Yeah, I've read it before. And bayer gave aids to foreign countries, and nestle has done deplorable things, and the banana people have hired mercenaries to kill natives for banana control, and our US government let tons of black people die and spread syphilis because they just wanted to see how it went instead of giving them the cure, cable companies stole billions and never delivered on promised infrastructure....if it's a big entity, they're usually pieces of shit. I'm still getting my tape from 3M.
  
  "so what if they poisoned, are poisoning, and will continue to poison everyone in the US and abroad. So what if they single-handedly lowered the life expectancy of the planet, whilst if not causing, exacerbating every cancer. They make good tape."
  Not trying to come at you, it's just this is where we are as a society, and it makes me sad.
  
  The world also still let's planes use lead gasoline. My point is you won't be able to buy anything if you boycott every corpo that does something like this. It'd be great if you could, but you can't.
  
  indeed. I think it's emblematic of the corrupting influence of money. When literally every company you can think of is engaging in arguably evil practices, it begs the question, was Marx right?
  Marx described Socialism not in any concrete terms, but as the result of revolution against corporate capitalism. When workers decide that they're tired of evil corporations and wealthy class protecting only their own, and instead return power to the workers via coops and anti-monopolistic regulations. Investing in the welfare of the common people, instead of bailing out companies that are "too big to fail."
  Everyday I become more socialist.

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