"no ethical consumption under capitalism" is not a blanket permission to ignore all well organized boycotts and strikes, it's a clap back against bad faith hypocrisy dunks for wearing clothes and buying groceries from monopolies and oligopolies #HogwartsLegacy
A single individual refusing to shop at Walmart does nothing. That is not an example of a well organized boycott. "Voting with your dollar" is a fallacy *without organization, goals, and planning*
Dunking on people complaining about low wages or mistreatment of sweatshop workers or shaming working class people for buying groceries at the only place they can afford and reach, that is what the slogan "no ethical consumption under capitalism" is about.
No ethical consumption under capitalism is also a valid response to efforts to make things "fair" with campaigns to buy some luxury good as opposed to some other good. Grifters are abound selling liberals some luxury good that will supposedly save the world of they buy it instead
See: fair trade coffee, that shitty adbusters shoe, or Tesla cars.

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