Not that I ever do, I don’t have money even for second hand shit. But sometimes I get drawn into checking out the windows (I like guitars and electronics, that seems to be all those places sell).
Not that I ever do, I don’t have money even for second hand shit. But sometimes I get drawn into checking out the windows (I like guitars and electronics, that seems to be all those places sell).
There's no ethical consumption under capitalism. The laptop in the pawnshop was made as a commodity to be sold the first time, produced, at best, by workers who are having their surplus value stolen from them, at worst, by workers in slave-like conditions. Secondhand, the laptop manufacturer won't get to profit off it again, the resources don't have to be dug out of the ground for it to be produced, and the coal doesn't have to be burned to power the machinery to extract the resources and manufacture the laptop. But how that laptop got to that pawnshop might be pretty shitty.
Don't buy from pawnshops if you don't want to. It's not any more unethical than any other consumption under capitalism. But, like any other aspect of capitalism, not participating won't make it go away. Individual consumption choices don't change much.