A question about ethics.

This one has bothered me for quite some time. I’m sure there’s a simple answer, though:<br><br>If I am directly connected to a violent, oppressive system – and I’m trying to be fair in the way that I live within it – am I not still complicit?<br><br>Say I’m a farmer, and I believe that I pay my workers a fair wage. But I’m connected to capitalism, which is inherently exploitative. If I buy my seed from a factory farm, am I not still connected to their exploitation despite my own decency in treatment of workers? In other words, does my fairness on the surface level excuse my complicity in whatever wrongs are committed by the system?<br><br>Also, is this question more relevant to some of the moral absolutist sects of Christianity, with the idea of original sin? Everything is inherently sinful because it “descends” from Adam, hence my own sinfulness. Just as I am connected to a system despite my goodness, I am connected to the original sin itself, hence my own sinfulness, despite my own goodness.<br><br>Anyway, help!