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0 pointschristiangenco7y ago0 comments

This is the first time I've heard the phrase "Guiltlessness As A Service" - from a google search I think it may be your own term?

Regardless, I like it. I think you're using it to describe businesses that do things like sell carbon credits or do humanitarian work?

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guelo7y ago

Or maybe he meant companies destroying the environment, or anything else, for you so you don't have to feel guilty about it.

jgroszko7y ago

Well Deserved is a (parody) marketplace for privilege https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WoK4_dQbfuU

radiantswirl7y ago

Companies with an "eco" or "humanitarian" angle are rly just selling newfangled Catholic indulgences.

jeremyjh7y ago

Except they might also actually be helping some people, or improving the environment, even if its very inefficient.

thatfrenchguy7y ago

But they also are a cop out to not solve the real problem.

If you give tuition money to a few poor kids via a non profit, you don’t solve the college debt and education accessibility problem, but it makes people who did it feel better.

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jdietrich7y ago

Slavoj Žižek makes a very persuasive argument against this sort of tokenism in "The Pervert's Guide to Ideology".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJDgxH8aRGs

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