what stage of capitalism is it when you barely even advertise the name of your product and just try to hide behind excuses? (the other side is the same but in French) (hexbear.net)

submitted 7 months ago by blight@hexbear.net to c/chapotraphouse@hexbear.net

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[-] zifnab25@hexbear.net 16 points 7 months ago

Fictitious Capital

Also (trigger warning: sexual assault) I'm sure we're all going to be surprised to learn what Lipton middle-management has been up to in Kenya

[-] allthetimesivedied@hexbear.net 14 points 7 months ago

You know those white kids who overzealously scream about white people with dreads? This is the tea they drink.

[-] Spongebobsquarejuche@hexbear.net 6 points 7 months ago

God damn. I do both those things...

[-] RyanGosling@hexbear.net 9 points 7 months ago

Remember that Mr Beast campaign about planting trees that every YouTuber hopped on? I wonder what happened with that. I wonder how many trees were actually planted with care and not some shmuck throwing an acorn into the dirty.

[-] frightful_hobgoblin@lemmy.ml 9 points 7 months ago

Yeah but that's one teabag. It comes in a cardboard box with 200 of it's friends.

[-] blight@hexbear.net 4 points 7 months ago

that also have this same design

[-] frightful_hobgoblin@lemmy.ml 4 points 7 months ago

cardboard box

[-] blight@hexbear.net 1 points 7 months ago

i meant its 200 friends

[-] Rom@hexbear.net 3 points 7 months ago

What does the box look like though? If the brand is obvious from the box then I don't think it's a big deal if the packets inside only have a tiny brand logo. You already bought it and know what it is from the external packaging.

The greenwashing is almost certainly bullshit though I agree. Lipton was owed by Unilever until recently and even NATOpedia lists Unilever's crimes.

[-] DamarcusArt@lemmygrad.ml 9 points 7 months ago

Also what kind of trees? Cocoa trees? Tea trees? On plantations? That you force the locals to work at as a form of "cheap" labour?

This is just so monstrous. I don't know what marketing executive came up with this idea of trying to greenwash their plantations like this, but they deserve to be hit by a bus. Absolutely soulless. This is the sort of thing that would be considered "too unrealistically cruel and inhumane" for a movie satirising how capitalism does exactly this sort of shit all the time.