day 20

I'm really glad that my money is not going towards these corrupt corporations, and then being spend on child labour in some sweatshop in Ethiopia. Not to say that I don't want to give my money to the children working in sweatshops, just that I do not in any way want to support them making my shoes.
This assignment has really opened up my perspective on where MY money really goes. I never really thought of it that specifically before, or even at all. I just knew that I was buying a shirt or whatever, not where my money would go. I never considered that the people who buy these things are actually paying the sweatshop workers. Because obviously the money is not coming from the corporation itself, it's coming from the profit being made from the murchandise.
After I thought about this I realised that there is nothing that I can buy that is worth this. I would rather buy all my clothes from salvation army and donate the money I would have spent on them to some people that need it in a developing country rather than support these industries.
I always understood that they were negatively affecting the environment, and that something needed to be done to stop it, but I was never motivated as I thought that just me doing something could never matter. Now that I have more money, the things I have been buying have made me change and realise that there is no tangeble thing that is worth dehumanising people and destroying the one thing that we have.
I cannot for my life understand how consumerism has become such a problem in the world: how having something nice is worth all the shit everyone and everything involved in making it and getting it there has to go through.
Now when I look at these things, or when I walk through the mall all I see is the actual price of these things. Because what people don't realise is that the price tag has nothing to do with the cost.