Consumption, Inequality, and Social Justice

Consumption, Inequality, and Social Justice

Consumption, Social Justice, and Inequality
Today, one of the biggest threats to justice, and also one of the biggest emerging contributors to a growing global inequality, is the modern pattern of consumption. This pattern both enables and is created by the capitalist/industrial system that produces and distributes the goods and services that modern consumers buy. The system of producers/distributors has come to hold a power over the consumers that is as effectively as powerful as the force of law, a power that is being used to increase inequality problems and subvert democratic social principles. This power comes from the increasing leverage that globalization has given corporate interests along with a…