What I’m saying is, in society, the corporations often do something that you just hate.
Ranging from anti consumer practices, data tracking, all the way to supporting a political candidate you dislike or even in extreme cases, going full nazi. So theres a wide spectrum of “evil” that corporations do, where along that line do you say “nope, I’m out” and boycott? I mean, we can’t boycott for every minor transgression, or every thing its CEO says, because there are only like a few companies out there, so if you are too restrictive in drawing that line, you would be essentially cutting yourself off of the capitalist society, and have to grow food by yourself. So when do you boycott?
Small things like the CEO performing a nazi salute, and others not getting mad at that.
How can you boycott a company when you already bought their product six years ago and weren’t planning on replacing it any time soon? Asking for a friend…
The unrealistic option: Sell the car, buy another brand. This slightly reduces demand. (I don’t think it is reasonable to expect people to do this)
More realistic options: Slap a sticker on your car: “I bought this car before I knew he was a nazi”
Leave a bad review, at the app store and other places you can.
Depends how easy it is to avoid using. When there are lots of choices it’s easy to switch. Hard to boycott the website that handles half of all retail in the USA.
If you mean Amazon, hard at first but once you get into the habit it’s not hard at all. Whatever you would search Amazon for, search DuckDuckGo for or your websearch of choice and put -amazon in. There are SO MANY online stores out there, with perfectly reasonable prices and even free and fast shipping.
Some general recs:
B&H Photo or Microcenter for anything electronic or computer related
For clothes, if you have any clothes you already enjoy, go directly to their brand website
For food items, local grocery stores often offer online shopping and delivery. If it’s a specialty item or imported the import companies sometimes have their own websites.
For something hard to find you can’t find another site for, try Ebay.
I’ve been avoiding Amazon for about three years now. I do business with all sorts of independent retailers and have only had good experiences with them. I encourage everyone to get out of the trap of thinking that Amazon is the only option.
That’s what’s hard about living in a small town. I detest Walmart but it’s literally all I have in about 100 miles in any direction.
if (product.evil >= product.quality + (product.quality - competition.quality)) { boycott(product); }Damn. This is perfect.
When it would create unnecessary waste. Like, oh I bought product X, but 2 weeks later company X has revealed they did something aweful. I won‘t throw it away, just use it until it breaks and the move on to someone different.
same
Where possible I have ceased purchasing anything from them.
I also try to purchase second hand tech and fix what I have for as long as it makes sense to keep using it.
I dont wear clothes with brands as I dont want to pay a ridiculous price to be a walking advertisement of sweatshop labor where the poor soul got paid fuck all to stick a logo onto some fabric that is sold for the equivalent of a months wages.
I activly call them out on some fake social media accounts just for this to use their ads against them.
There are also many sea excursions to be had. 🦜
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they’d surely stop stealing everybody’s water for bottling. If it isn’t profitable, they wouldn’t do it.
I don’t think they would. It’s far more likely that they’d “work with” governments to make boycotting their product illegal.
One example: anti-BDS laws regarding Israeli goods, especially in the US.
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I stopped buying Nike after I heard that they responsored Michael Vick after he was found guilty of hosting a dog fighting ring and killing the dogs himself. Was years ago and still refuse
Slave labor = boycott. Child labor = boycott. MAGA = boycott.
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It’s difficult. But I try to avoid buying from companies that do this shit when I can, and I try to buy from companies that at least claim they are trying to do something about it.
“Don’t let the perfect be the enemy of the good” is a valid strategy.
I live in the south, and if a small business is pushing their religion or politics to their customers, that’s an instant no from me.
When I can, really. You’re right it’s be nearly impossible to boycott all the shitty brands in the world so instead I do my best to minimize consumption and purchase local, used, or from brands with better reputations.
If it’s something possible enough to boycott like Starbucks or McDonald’s, sure, but how am I going to entirely boycott the electronics or telecomms companies that have literal monopolies where I live.
As for where I draw the line for disliking a company, I’d say like blatant human rights infringements or if a CEO is saying some shit and the company backs them on it.
I have greatly reduced my consumption, particularly of new products. I’ve blocked most major socials by DNS in hosts of my PC (lots of japanese businesses still use some as their only way of stating business hours and info and same with updated disaster info, so I don’t block on my phone but don’t use unless I must). I don’t buy from companies who have a record of human rights positions and environmental policies that I disagree with whoever possible.
First of all there’s no such thing as ethical consumption under capatilism, however for me being disabled with only food stamps I get little to no options to boycott anything
I stopped eating grapes for a week when Microsoft discontinued Outlook Express.
…why?
It just seemed right shinigamiookamiryuu, it just seemed right.
I made sticker mule delete my account as soon as someone tried to shoot trump and the owner tweeted some shit about “no violence in politics!”. fuck that, everything is violence against non whites with trump. and I told them exactly why to delete it, fuck your boss.
same with Jack black, fucking chode.
and anything with “influencers” and scams like PRIME drinks. fuck the Paul brothers too
Wait, what happened with Jack black?
same shit. his music partner said some shit about she shooter shouldn’t miss next time, and jb got all weird and canceled his shows, saying “no violence in politics” bullshit.
everything trump says is violence, so he gets what he fucking deserves, all the hate. don’t act high and mighty because someone finally stood up and took a shot. fuck jb
I haven’t touched Gillette since they decided to disparage their primary customer base, then doubled down on that insult. I’ve even gone so far as to divest myself of many P&G products, since a parent company is ultimately responsible for the bigoted and sexist attitudes used by subsidiaries.
I’m out of the loop on this one, but comfortable staying that way.
For me it’s a graph where Y is the likelihood that I will boycott and X how easy/convenient it is to find a replacement inversely related to how terrible said company is.
So the worse a company, the harder I will work to find a replacement.
Have you been able to keep Nestle out of your life?
It’s sooo challenging, but I try. Buycott helped for awhile, but I haven’t redownloaded since I got a new phone. We typically try to stick to best choice equivalent brands, but I do check the packaging to see if whatever brand is under Nestle.
The hardest part is convincing my SO to stop eating Stouffer’s.
