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:But the [[employability]]-meter could be useful within one [[country]] eg. a company based in [[Finland]] might employ X people in Finland and Y people in China. Now as in Finland it is fully possible to get [[cashflow]], [[asset]] and [[profit]] information that could be compared for each [[consumer]] according to her/his [[preferences]] on which countries to value for employment effect. | :But the [[employability]]-meter could be useful within one [[country]] eg. a company based in [[Finland]] might employ X people in Finland and Y people in China. Now as in Finland it is fully possible to get [[cashflow]], [[asset]] and [[profit]] information that could be compared for each [[consumer]] according to her/his [[preferences]] on which countries to value for employment effect. | ||
::This is a very bad way to make a decision. It doesn't fit into the [[individual buying criteria]] of most [[Greens]], and for good reason. It creates only [[protectionism]] which is not the best way to get [[comprehensive outcome]]s of high [[moral value]]. To [[buy local]] doesn't mean to prefer something from across your own country to something from just across a border you live near. So countries aren't the way to do this. | |||
:Further on the [[employability]] [[ratio]] could be related to median or average pay to be more informative. Also [[UN Human Development Index]] might be included in the evaluation | :Further on the [[employability]] [[ratio]] could be related to median or average pay to be more informative. Also [[UN Human Development Index]] might be included in the evaluation | ||
::"Pay" is worthless. Try [[purchasing power parity]] or as you say the UN HDI. | |||
You would expect to find a lot more people employed in the processing of cocoa than of coffee. Does that make cocoa better than coffee? Some would argue the opposite, that because coffee takes almost no equipment to process, that it is not creating pollution via factory processes and it is easier to get [[fair trade]] coffee to market than it is for cocoa. | You would expect to find a lot more people employed in the processing of cocoa than of coffee. Does that make cocoa better than coffee? Some would argue the opposite, that because coffee takes almost no equipment to process, that it is not creating pollution via factory processes and it is easier to get [[fair trade]] coffee to market than it is for cocoa. | ||