&quot;Next time I make a purchase of a chip, or a product using it, I may check on this to the extent of my ability. I might not go without a laptop if I can&#x27;t acquire it without causing harm, but I will certainly prefer to minimize such harm if possible.&quot;<p>Very reasonable position.<p>&quot;My hypothesis is that if you give people easy ways to do the right thing, they tend to value doing so[1].&quot;<p>My experience in activism for civil rights, privacy, less corruption, and so on suggests people just don&#x27;t care. It has to literally take almost no mental effort in America or most won&#x27;t lift a finger. Unless it&#x27;s one of those hot button issues. They&#x27;ll at least talk a lot about it on Facebook while some take action. Apathy reigns supreme here, though, as we&#x27;ve seen time after time.<p>&quot;(even if &quot;we are better that the competition... because we decided to recently stop funding warlords&quot; is perhaps a fairly low standard)&quot;<p>Haha. Low standards reign, too.<p>&quot;involving regulations and government incentives and treaties, and stronger governance developing in affected countries;&quot;<p>TPP shows it going in the opposite direction with more concentration of power into elites&#x27; hands and reinforcement of prior stuff. Individual companies might do better, though, hopefully.