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Boycotting isn't individual choice, however; boycotts, when they work, usually work due to PR and reputational effects rather than market effects.
by barrkel 9y ago
Boycotting isn't individual choice, however; boycotts, when they work, usually work due to PR and reputational effects rather than market effects.
- Retric 9y agoA call to action on a public forum might not mean much on it's own, but it's still advertising the idea.
- fpoling 9y agoBoycotting works through the stubborn minority rule [1]. Sometimes even less than 1% of the total population can enforce their rule for the whole country. This works as long as the rest of population finds the rule does not bother them match. [1] http://fooledbyrandomness.com/minority.pdf http://fooledbyrandomness.com/minority.pdf
- TeMPOraL 9y agoWait, wait, wait. I thought it was universally acknowledged that boycotts, generally, don't work, because you can almost never find and coordinate enough people that care.
- fpoling 9y agoThe case of Kosher wine from the link shows how about 0.3% of population forced almost all wines in US to be Kosher by boycotting non-kosher wines. The important thing is that the minority should be distributed across the whole population uniformly.