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I disagree with this. Your 9–5 spent powering the machine that mistreats these workers probably vastly outweighs whatever wins you're able to eke out on nights

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• qntty 7y ago
  I suspect that if 1,000,000 people across the country decided tomorrow to refuse to work for an unethical company, the benefit would be pretty marginal. They would just find someone else. But if 1,000,000 people got involved in political activism, even if only on nights and weekends, I think that it could really change the country. When you're refusing to work for an unethical company, you're playing a very different game than when you get involved in political activism. You need a very high percentage (>10% of an industry?) of people to commit to refusing to work for an unethical company for it to make a difference. On the other hand, a very small number of people engaging in political activism can change the consciousness of the entire country very quickly. Think of the way that a few people hanging out in Zuccotti Park changed the way that we talk about wealth in America. Nobody knew what the "99%" was before that.