Responsible consumerism

Something that has been weighing on my mind lately is how we can be mindful of day to day choices that we make, so that what we invest in will empower what will be most rewarding to society. In the wake of the Trump presidency, John Oliver brought this up as well. He urges us to put our money where our mouths are and to support organisations which will need help under a Trump administration. Instead of simply sharing videos on social media and clicking like, he suggests that we exercise our social responsibility to affect change, something which aligns much more with the ideal of democracy than our current tendency to stand back and complain about the government whilst simultaneously depending on it to fail to make changes that will benefit us.