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@JustDisa The radicalization part is exactly what I'm thinking. it's the same for all things. i don't know what it is, but telling a human not to do something often makes them want to do it more, to the point of fixation.

For instance, I didn't really like lolisho until enough people made an issue of it. At first it was pure spite, but now it's unironic enjoyment.

I'm not sure how we could find a way to make something be cheaper, ethical, and higher quality. Some off brand things are so awful that i could never recommend them to anyone because the off brand tastes so bad or "functions" so poorly, that it just makes all off brand things look like an awful idea.

Some people might at least try to go for cheaper/more ethical, but don't realize that the off brand product they're buying is literally owned by the same guy they're trying to avoid. In terms of keeping things ethical, we're having serious monopoly issues in America. When i was in retail, I learned that the candy companies that were "competing" that we would promote at the cash register were literally the same guy wearing different hats. They break off into differet companies so they don't get in trouble for having a monopoly, but they still own everything. And almost every company is tied to one major evil. That's how it always goes. I found this out while briefly trying to figure out how I could avoid giving Nestle money and realized that they are tied to way too many. If a person doesn't care about other human beings, that's how you get rich. If I had even 1% less morals, I would probably be doing quite well right now.

It'd be rough, but the only way would literally be to buy starter materials, and then be able to produce more materials from the starter materials we were given. We'd be making initial investments in places that are evil to start, but could go from there and create things that are good, and try to pay the unfortunate back later to make up for that initial investment. They are deeply wealthy to the point that they can easily buy and sell countries. Their wealth is the kind that can command standing armies. Control entire sectors of government. Almost anyone can be bought. Every human has a price.

Ethics aren't the first thing that comes to people's minds when they buy. They're an exhausted person coming home from work that just wants to eat and not feel like a criminal for trying to live. We're all too tired to go on an endless search to try and figure out whether a purchase is ethical or not. We're going for quality, price, and effectiveness. But if we find a way to make ethical things easy to obtain whether someone researches them, sees them in an ad, or just starts on accident, then we can get rid of the barrier to entry, which changes everything. The only issue I can foresee is if the on brand companies started deeply lowering their prices in the way that walmart competes with local grocery stores. But this assumes that they're smart enough to take that loss for 10+ years straight trying to compete with the new game in town. They haven't seemed smart for awhile. They're so out of touch with reality with the financial decisions they've been making, doing stuff like replacing workers with robots that can barely do a real person's job before the robots are even ready. With some decisions they're all making in every area of product, it's as if they're allergic to money.

There could also be the idea that they instead take the slander approach, or the Luigi approach trying to make the competition stop existing. If they're especially stupid, they'd be that bold while trying to make it go away, but as I said, they have shown to have lights on upstairs, but nobody seems to be home.