The 1 Percent’s Problem - Joseph E. Stiglitz - VanityFair

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30. Exactly. The total opposite of what the stock market stands for.

That leads to some people who think they are doing good by spending stock market money made from the most heinous and exploitative practices against people and the environment possible on shopping locally or even on charities.
Shopping locally is an answer . It is, I believe, something that must happen to try to save what little is going to be left of the gifts of nature. But if people are shopping locally using gains made from the destroying the planet and the lives of third world people, what are they really accomplishing? We need to both earn and shop locally. A tall order but one that needs to happen if we are to start saying we take things like climate change seriously.