Nate Knows Nada

You’re right, and those are exactly some of the points that the
article raises.

BF and I talked about this last
night, and the problem for me is that horrible old question: “What can I, as one
person, do?”  And I don’t know.  Going to a store where they treat their
employees better is one possible solution, but all it really does is make me
feel better about myself.  Doesn’t help the wage
slaves.

We’ve all been alienated by this state of
affairs.  I can’t do anything to help the workers, they can’t help themselves. 
And so I’m left to deal with the interpersonal interaction level.  But since my
encounter with the human worker feels pretty far away from interpersonal
interaction (because, since the worker is a cog in the machine and has become
some sort of machine, the interaction is pretty much about as one would have
with a machine), I move to the more pleasant of the two nonpersonal
interactions.

But I don’t know what I as one
person can do, and I guess that I’m just not optimistic about the line of
thinking that goes, “If enough people think and act like I do, then things will
change.”  Perhaps it’s pessimism, but I don’t
know….

What would you do/do you do?