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1) You can’t keep up with all of it. 2) There are substantial costs to avoiding all the brands known to be doing bad things, both in time and money, even if yo
by vundercind 2y ago
1) You can’t keep up with all of it.
2) There are substantial costs to avoiding all the brands known to be doing bad things, both in time and money, even if you could keep up with it.
3) Ok, so you’ve decided the cost to you and your family is worth it: congrats, your efforts harm you more than all these companies unless a whole bunch of other people do the same thing, and keep doing it (i.e. it’s a coordination problem)
There are reasons boycotts and such are all but entirely ineffective as a means of keeping megacorps in line, and it’s not really “consumers’” fault things are how they are. It’s structural.