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Just some additional advertising for todays boycott.

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[–] rational_lib@lemmy.world -4 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago) (2 children)

I disagree with both the premise and the conclusion. Even if skipping corporate stuff for a day is only a mild inconvenience, that is still obviously not convenient. Second, there's no reason to suspect convenience should strongly impact effectiveness. How much did it inconvenience anyone to boycott South Africa in the 80s?

Maximizing effectiveness for unit of effort is smart. And when a tiny change in share price can make a big difference in CEO compensation, we'd be complete masochists not to use that in our favor. But also even if you're into maximizing pain, if we wanna talk about permanently going after these corporations then it's gotta start somewhere. And it's best to start with getting people to do what's easy.

[–] Vespair@lemm.ee 3 points 18 hours ago

I might agree if I believed there was any viable impact here, but even 1mil multiplied by zero is still zero.

[–] MellowYellow13@lemmy.world 1 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

This does literally nothing unless you make it a consistent thing.

[–] rational_lib@lemmy.world 4 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Ok. Make it a consistent thing then. Starting today.

[–] UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml 3 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago)

I'm already broke. I'm boycotting everyone except my landlord, Aldis, the liquor store, and my weed/psychedelic bro