>>>I make (and spend) about $3000 a year... how much of that goes to supporting labor conditions in China?
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>Why choose China except to move consideration away from yourself? Fact is that you can manage on $3000/year because others are exploited to hold your costs down. Also consider that there are other nations where there is no food production exploitation. You could try moving there to practice as you preach, but then you'd struggle to live on $3K/annum. Alternatively you could move to the third world and live comfortably (at least compared to your neighbours) without needing even $3K.

Reminds me of a magazine article I read a few years ago about a family that decided that, for a year, they wouldn't buy anything that wasn't "consumable." That is, they could buy food and toilet paper and similar things that were necessary and got used up, but no clothing or housewares or anything else. The kicker was that they got all those other things by having them handed down from people who bought them. I was pretty annoyed that the writer didn't make the point that they only could do this because other people helped them to do it.

Tamar