You combat it by mentioning it at every turn so that the people who care about the damage that gets done, but did not know, will choose other products. The people who don't care that they are hurting other people as long as they get a cheap pump will not be bothered, but you don't do it for them... you do it for every other people who puts some skin in the game to innovate and start a company and abides by fair trade principles.
Most just don't know.
Fair enough. I get that
for clarity- I either bought a jebao, or I couldn’t build my system when I did. - $500 pump wasn’t in the budget. Figured I’d use it for a year until it blew out like people kept saying, but it’s been fine for 2.5 years.
Also- do you do this just for aquarium pumps, or every ripped- off product and brand? Do you use apple products that exploit overseas labor sources? Do you use Uber and Lyft that have records of employee abuse and coersive tactics?
I don’t want to turn this into a political thing. Dude asked a question about return pumps and got a IP protection and ‘don’t buy Chinese’ speech. Inappropriate, in my opinion.
FWIW- the pump was a one off purchase. When it goes out- I’ll probably buy a different brand,since there are a couple things wrong with the controller I don’t like. And I can afford the upgrade nowadays. If they change the controller I might even get a newer model jebao, because, hey, it’s $300 and I have young kids.
i justify it - actually not in this case, I didn’t really spend much time agonizing over it- but I offset injustices Like you described by buying groceries responsibly, buying farmed seafood and fish, sourcing lumber from renewable growth operations and not supporting companies with crappy employee treatment. We use solar power and drive a hybrid vehicle that we charge using the solar. I also worked 12 years developing free to patient vaccines and treatments, and my wife works in healthcare coordinating cancer treatments that have saved lives.
we offset plenty, and wouldn’t consider myself someone who ‘doesn’t care about hurting other people for a cheap pump’. At the time I did my build, I had a hard budget, and a new baby 3 months from turning up.
