Excessive costs for the kitchen?!

What is a TM?

This kitchen appliance, which sooner or later is found in almost every expensive kitchen and is supposed to replace steamers and stoves. For some, the quality is sufficient, I've been told.

then a single stove without Berbel would have done it too ... heh

but that wouldn't be so cool

that wouldn't be so cool though

Oh, I don't know. For some (male) people, the technology fascinates them so much that they call the thing super cool. Just take a look in the kitchen thread at how the TM stands on the countertop.

Today there is beetroot mash with boiled sausage. My wife cooks it on Folklig without berbel. And it's made from a real beetroot that was still in Friedrichsen's field the day before yesterday, and with boiled sausage that is definitely not from Tönnies, but from the local butcher next door.

...products made with child labor,...

I find it a very difficult ethical issue. From our perspective here, where our kids go to kindergarten and then start school with a big school cone while mom and dad film everything on the new iPhone with tears of pride in their eyes, supporting child labor sounds like something that must absolutely be avoided. Realistically, however, children in correspondingly poor countries often contribute to a family income through their child labor and thus help to feed the family. Boycotting such practices therefore potentially has negative effects on the group we want to protect. They often live hand to mouth there, and if such a child's income disappears, as foolish as it sounds, they have to look even harder for where to get the next meal. The idea that you just must not buy jeans made with child labor anymore, and that the little ones can then stand on the school doorstep on time for enrollment because they would have nothing else to do, is a bit short-sighted. The problems that need to be solved there are of a much more complex nature. I do not presume to know the answer; I only know that one should not think too narrowly about it.

I do not presume to know an answer to that, I just know that one should not think too narrowly about it.

I see the dilemma as you do and also have no answer at hand. To really help structurally, we need to reach a broader consensus on sharing. Simply reinventing the wheel cannot be the answer. What each of us individually accomplishes and contributes is good and yet always just a drop in the ocean. In a few years, we will want and have to discuss this differently.