Consumers now take for granted supply-chain horrors that once provoked scandal

Evidence

What is shocking is less the stories themselves than the fact that they no longer seem to provoke much shock at all. A quarter of a century after I published No Logo, we seem to take it for granted that a piece of fast fashion worn by a young woman in New York or London or Toronto means that other young women have to risk being incinerated in their garment factories in Dhaka, Bangladesh. — Naomi Klein, Doppelganger, 778

Categorization

• SEED: The normalization of atrocity in supply chains — twenty-five years of No Logo-style exposés producing apathy rather than reform — could anchor a piece on the limits of moral-consumerism as change strategy.
• XREF: connects to: Revealing corporate evils fails because Walmart embodies consumers’ securitized subjectivity — Max Haiven, Cultures of Financialization, 310