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There you are, divested of every cigarette company holding, innocently buying Kraft cheese at the supermarket.
Get a credit card that doesn't only contribute to your favorite charity or cause -- but actively monitors and advises you if your purchases violate your code.
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But the credit card company doesn't know you bought Kraft. Only that you bought stuff at XYZ store. |
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And it doesn't know until you've bought it. Unless we give it the ability to read barcodes. I was going to suggest RFID tags, but then realised the havoc this would cause every time you walked into a supermarket; a little squeaky voice that cries, "Oh no! Don't go in there! Oh, the evil!" |
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Imagine, wandering round a clothes shop only to have this little voice whisper, in tones of awed horror: "Do you realize you're standing in a Gap store?" |
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I have no values to speak of, but the direction our annotations has turned is an exciting prospect. |
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Taking this thought even further around the corner, there are bakers here whose computers would not allow them to access this site. |
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"That bastion of chaos is not in alignment with your avowed political stance - access denied" |
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Credit card? Evil, evil, evil. Usurious interest rates, making multinational banking corporations smug and rich and increasing their power to grind the little man beneath their jackbooted heels. |
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But, think of the upside. Without credit card companies, the debt recovery industry wouldn't provide as many jobs. |
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There is a scanner for barcodes that consumers can use to find ethical information about the company making them. |
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[nineteenthy] Really? I've been wanting that for years. Can you post a link? |
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Credit cards may be evil, UB, but I'd never have made it through university without four of 'em. In the days before the Student Loans Company and chuck-the-cash-at-anyone dial-a-loan type moneylenders, they were my only option. |
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'Course I've been paying for the damn things ever since, but hey, at least I got those letters to put after my name. |
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What do you mean, they won't get me a job? |
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