This is a very Reddit take, I think. The distinction is significantly more nuanced. Distance and percentage of slave labor used changes culpability, for example. I would argue that a person having a slave wait on them directly for all needs creates significantly more culpability than the fact that the lithium in my iPhone battery may or may not have come from some class of exploited labor worlds away from me. Further, while the slave owner could divest themselves of slaves directly, I don’t think there is any way for a modern westerner to rid themselves of anything in the supply chain of their lives of same. It doesn’t make it right, but these things are not equivalent.