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How do you boycott Monsanto/Bayer, which sell to farmers You organize the farmers to boycott. If you can raise $1mm from various environmental activist commun
by padobson 7y ago
How do you boycott Monsanto/Bayer, which sell to farmers
You organize the farmers to boycott.
If you can raise $1mm from various environmental activist communities to lobby congress, you could just as easily raise the same million and organize a boycott that directly targets the revenue source of the bad actor.
- SketchySeaBeast 7y agoHow does raising $1mm - which is nothing spread out across any number of farmers going to affect the revenue stream?
- padobson 7y agoDon't get lost in the weeds here. The main thing to understand is that if something has value, there is a market-based approach to get that value. I don't need to argue that the environment and endangered species have value. They clearly do. I'm arguing that activists should act more like entrepreneurs and find a way to use market forces to extract that value - in this case, protecting species and their environments. I've thrown out hypothetical examples, but I'm not an environmental activist, I don't pretend to understand the market. But I know the market is there, because this thread is dedicated to discussing the market opportunity.
- SketchySeaBeast 7y agoThe market-based approach is to lobby - it's the fastest and most efficient way, and America's brand of capitalism has figured it out. Ironically to go with the more common market, you'd need anti-lobby legislation.