Stephen Elliott~Buckley<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.online/@sarahtaber" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>sarahtaber</span></a></span> </p><p>In the 1990s when activists were trying to get <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/fairtrade" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>fairtrade</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/coffee" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>coffee</span></a> & <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/hotchocolate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>hotchocolate</span></a> everywhere, they were working with economist data that said, the price of fair trade coffee at a coffee shop was $0.10 higher than non-fair trade. </p><p>Capitalists, and people who are schemey, tried to pretend that <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/labour" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>labour</span></a> costs are the vast majority of anything. </p><p>It's really profit. And sick people who like to manipulate & exploit vulnerable people.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/cdnpoli" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>cdnpoli</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/canada" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>canada</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/mexico" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>mexico</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/elbowsup" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>elbowsup</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/bcpoli" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>bcpoli</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/canlab" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>canlab</span></a></p>