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And yet, not doing business with disney is so easy. All you have to do is not spend $10/month on their streaming thing. Or not spend thousands on a trip to thei
by _bin_ 2y ago
And yet, not doing business with disney is so easy. All you have to do is not spend $10/month on their streaming thing. Or not spend thousands on a trip to their park thing. Or not pay a $20 premium for their toy things.
I can't recall ever giving disney money as an adult. And I think the last time my family did was buying a DVD copy of Finding Nemo some time around 2008.
So the outrage threshold to "do something" in this case is "barely outraged at all". In any case, going after one company is a more, not less, realistic target than attacking "corporate media" as a whole.
- AlotOfReading 2y agoYou might be surprised how broad their reach is. Checking 538 for the upcoming US election? Disney. Popular YouTubers like Epic Rap Battles of history. Disney again. ESPN. Also Disney. They also have significant investments in most of the other big media companies. There's a high chance something you've watched recently led to compensation for Disney.
- _bin_ 2y agoI might check FiveThirtyEight once in a while but use an ad blocker. I don't really watch much content regardless and my main newspapers (Economist, FT, WSJ, NYT) aren't owned by or affiliated with the mouse. In any case, let's stipulate cutting out direct revenue to disney is the easiest and largest step. If a significant proportion of customers just stopped going to parks that would be a serious financial hit.