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Every single time something like this comes up, without fail, someone makes a comment like this: one that says "just solve the collective action problem!" The
by GavinMcG 8y ago
Every single time something like this comes up, without fail, someone makes a comment like this: one that says "just solve the collective action problem!"
The fact is, even if I go through the trouble to not use anything I find problematic, it's not going to affect those companies. "Here we are complaining" because getting others to be aware of the problem and to take action is the only thing that'll work.
- softawre 8y agoSo what you're saying is that you don't vote?
- cheapsteak 8y agoYou can vote _and_ participate in debates and activism to promote awareness
- komali2 8y agoSuggesting that a vote alone is a reasonable level of political activity to get anything done is absurd in 2018. You have to tweet, write, call, march, etc. Votes are determined in such a mass number that as an individual your voice is effectively worthless if it's only a vote. Obviously, you should still vote, but it's not enough. Hence, why we scream our heads off over things like this. I'm unable to find a source right now, but I remember reading in like the New Yorker or something YEARS ago about how all throughout the 50s-90s, the TV content ratings and what appeared on television was functionally decided by an organization titled something along the lines of "Christian Mothers of America," who would mass-write studios based on a similar value set. Given that this was the most tactile feedback the studios were getting (bearing in mind they're also getting ratings and viewership numbers), this was the primary determinate of TV content for decades.
- komali2 8y agoAnother example: is every person on HackerNews sorting their trash going to solve human-caused climate change? Obviously not. Shouting our heads off about what the rest of the people are doing is absolutely necessary to get results.