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That's all neat but there's a few problems with advocating this approach as a solution to anything.
The supply chain problem mentioned by the other reply to your comment.
The economic viability for this approach from both the side of supply and demand.
Local, especially "ethically" produced goods are usually much more expensive, and when people are barely making ends meet.
It's also much harder to expand a business that sources their goods "ethically" and so on.
Companies are largely not accountable, there is largely no economic democracy (vote with your dollar doesn't count), and increasingly all matters of government are once again captured by large corporations and wealthy individuals.
The solution here cannot be to just consume better, something needs to change drastically.