Re:Are dark kitchens the satanic mills of our era?
by Sharlin on Tuesday October 09, 2018 @12:46PM
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You'd be surprised. I don't think the large majority of the population thinks about the logistics involved at all, except insofar as it directly concerns them (ie. the last link in the chain, or when there's a problem in fulfilling the order). Retail is an abstraction that conjures products into consumers' hands as if by magic. This permits them to stay conveniently ignorant of the ugly parts of the supply chain, whether it's torturing and killing animals on factory farms, inhumane working conditions at a sweatshop in a faraway country, or the labor-laws-dodging gig economy of couriers and fulfillment center workers.
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Re:Are dark kitchens the satanic mills of our era?
by dionidium on Tuesday October 09, 2018 @01:39PM
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> This permits them to stay conveniently ignorant of the ugly parts of the supply chain
Yes, but it also leaves them completely ignorant of the extent to which modern capitalism is an unprecedented miracle of human cooperation and effort, which results in a lot of very silly rhetoric about the evils of corporations that wouldn't survive the slightest contact with the realities of running a business.