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Boycott never works, for all practical values of never, sorry. If you're thinking of a boycott, you've already lost.
by praptak 15y ago
Boycott never works, for all practical values of never, sorry. If you're thinking of a boycott, you've already lost.
- ahi 15y agoCesar Chavez and the United Farmworkers would strongly disagree.
- CamperBob 15y agoAnd how are those farmworkers doing these days?
- flamingbuffalo 15y agohttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montgomery_Bus_Boycott http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montgomery_Bus_Boycott (agreed that it is very rare they work though)
- robbrown451 15y agoYou are right, except in cases where defecting on the boycott is more harmful to you than not defecting. For instance, if I am a scab and cross a picket line, I can put myself in danger or at least make myself unhireable in the future. In this case, though, people can be hired without anyone knowing about it. If lots of money is offered, someone will take it, and if there is pressure not to do take such a job, they will simply keep it secret who takes the job. I think what you are saying, which I absolutely agree with, is that any system that relies on people going against their own personal self-interest, in mass, is doomed to failure.