"We are just so distracted with our shiny toys and trying to fend for ourselves in a forever broken economy that we just aren't reasonably capable of gaining the willpower and getting into the mentality necessary to go out of our ways to pursue them." Is that the way you want to live? As simple products of our environment? Do you want to be simply "Collateral damage" of the system we live in? Personally I don't think this is a sustainable way of life, not simply for Americans but as the world in general. I'm not saying that we should go out and personally help all of these people, I know that it is impossible to help all of them. But is it impossible to ask us as a people to at least recognize the work that goes into making our commodities? We need to at least disengage ourselves from worshiping the stuff that we buy.
No, it is not the way I want to live it is the way that many are currently living. It's terrible. How would you, personally, go about making it easier for those who have succumbed to that way of living to understand how they are able to buy the things that they buy? How would you make it easier for people to acknowledge the work that goes into making these commodities? I'm sure many already know how their luxuries are being produced. Do you feel that those that are working for close to nothing will appreciate being thanked for enduring those inhumane working conditions? That is like praying for something to happen rather than taking action. I'd feel undermined if I were being thanked for being a slave rather than being fought for to be taken out of those conditions.