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Emitting Silence and/or leaving sound like good ways to remove your values from the equation rather than to encourage the change you'd like to see. Is that the
by DangitBobby 6y ago
Emitting Silence and/or leaving sound like good ways to remove your values from the equation rather than to encourage the change you'd like to see. Is that the intended effect? How does one become an actor for good if one shuts up or quits when affiliated with an org that is misbehaving? In my opinion, leaving in protest is entirely ineffectual without consistent vocalizations of shortcomings and calls for change, which makes it a poor choice for maintaining institutions of importance.
- haram_masala 6y agoThe mechanism is the same as when people stop buying a crappy product. It's a mostly free market for labor, especially technical and scientific, and one should vote with their feet.
- DangitBobby 6y agoThis comparison assumes that the issues with the org are known or self evident. In many cases such as crappy products, the reasons will be evident for buyers (though just choosing not to buy doesn't help future buyers from experiencing the same problems as you; that's why voting via reviews is so important). But even in consumer goods, voting with your feet/wallet falls through when the discussion is no longer specifically about a marketed service or product. If you are getting screwed and don't raise a stink about bad customer service, for example, nothing will get done about it, and many people will likely have to re-live your experience unnecessarily. So I disagree that vote with your feet/wallet is a good strategy here.