The Case Against Consumer Social Responsibility

For years prior to becoming a mother, I had advocated for consumer social responsibility. It is only just recently that I realize how duped I had been by the logic undergirding neoliberal economics. An academic puppet in the scheme to colonize the public sphere with market ethos, I argued relentlessly for multi-stakeholder responsibility for ethical lapses and injustices perpetrated under the name of business corporations.

In what follows I hereby offer my repentance.