• JumpyWombat@lemmy.ml
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    12 hours ago

    We have lost all sense of how to influence the world and all ability to gauge scale.

    Absolutely correct!

    I believe in “voting with your wallet” and I do little sacrifices to respect my ideas, but I’m conscious that I’m just one step above people clicking on petitions online in terms of impact.

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      10 hours ago

      I think the point is that we’re deluded to think that voting with our wallets does anything. You still work. You still buy. You still support the system. The one step you’re taking only gets you partway from the couch to the refrigerator. It doesn’t get you out the door and into a protest that would actually make a difference.

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        10 hours ago

        You still work. You still buy. You still support the system.

        Of course, because I’m no more 16 arguing that a revolution is the solution.

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          10 hours ago

          Indeed, you are thoroughly pacified. Your objections and moral outage quelled and your sense of significance sustained by the illusion that simply buying from a different conglomerate will have any impact.

          Any suggestion that your impotent protest is inadequate must surely come from a childish fool.