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RE: How Important is it to Find "Meaning" in Your Work?
Surviving vs. well-being seems to be the shift. Economic variability and opportunities evolve after initial periods of hardship in a society, maybe?
Many people are still on surviving and money is a factor. Even for others money is still a factor. Paying $10 for soap isn't necessary despite it being better, so why spend that much? Quality of products matters less than how much we pay relative to other things we can pay for.
Spending is still very personal, since we aren't all loaded up with money to spend on more ethically produced things :/
For us, part of greater independence has revolved around being very cognizant of what truly matters to us, independently of the clutter of voices coming from the greater world. A lot of people live more by what they believe they "should" be doing than what they truly want to be doing... and they remain unaware that they actually have a choice.
We're all dependent on money to some degree. I have no issue with that... money is just a tool of exchange for me; it allows for an easy way to pay for the electricity and Internet and all that good stuff.
There are always philosophical and ethical bridges to cross. Take something simple like organic-locally grown food vs. factory-GMO-mass produced food. Lots of people want to be 100% organic, but simply can't afford it. I'm not sure how large differences are in Canada, but (for example) I can usually buy a dozen "regular" eggs for $1.29 on sale, but the organic cage-free ones run about $4.29 and are never on sale. What does it say about our world that making a healthy/ethical choice carries a 3-to-1 price premium?