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Resist and Unsubscribe (Scott Galloway)

74 points by beatthatflight 8mo ago

znpy 8mo ago
Ironic to see this posted here, as YCombinator is the nesr from which Sam Altman originally spread his wings. I’m keeping my chatgpt subscription though.
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delichon 8mo ago
Boycott Target | Ticker | Before (1/30/26) | After (2/13/26) | % Diff -------------------------|--------|------------------|-----------------|-------- Amazon | AMZN | 239.30 | 198.79 | -16.93 Uber | UBER | 80.05 | 69.99 | -12.57 Meta | META | 716.50 | 639.77 | -10.71 Alphabet (Google) | GOOGL | 338.00 | 305.72 | -9.55 Paramount (Skydance) | PARA | 11.21 | 10.32 | -7.94 Netflix | NFLX | 83.49 | 76.87 | -7.93 Microsoft | MSFT | 430.29 | 401.32 | -6.73 Apple | AAPL | 259.48 | 255.78 | -1.43 Dell | DELL | 114.44 | 117.49 | +2.66 Comcast (Xfinity) | CMCSA | 29.75 | 31.57 | +6.12 AT&T | T | 26.21 | 28.69 | +9.46 Marriott | MAR | 315.30 | 353.89 | +12.24 Charter (Spectrum) | CHTR | 206.12 | 239.09 | +16.00 FedEx | FDX | 322.25 | 374.72 | +16.28
- emestifs 8mo ago
  That's not very useful. The market has seen volatility for unrelated reasons over the past month. And effects of this, resist and unsubscribe, wouldn't be a factor so quickly. AFAIK this only launched less than a week or two ago.
  - delichon 8mo ago
    It's too quick to reflect the fundamentals, but the market is priced on vibes. They move at the speed of rumor. But even with normal volatility, the boycott will have to be wildly effective to produce an unambiguous market signal.
- Havoc 8mo ago
  That’s just measuring noise and arbitrary market swings
mythrwy 8mo ago
What are we resisting?
- selridge 8mo ago
  You, looks like.
  - pitched 8mo ago
    Not everyone here is American and the site is pretty vague about the specific grievances.
    - selridge 8mo ago
      Yeah that bigass yellow boxed paragraph is real unclear.
      - pitched 8mo ago
        > Americans are feeling powerless to thwart the Trump administration’s assault on our nation’s values. Praised by tech CEOs, surrounded by sycophants, and enriched by his return to the White House, the president’s actions march on unchecked. As far as I can tell, Americans love money, guns, and freedom. So Trump must be losing money, taking guns, and making everyone live with their parents. I think I’ll keep my ChatGPT subscription, sorry guys.
- profsummergig 8mo ago
  Apparently a return to the policies of 14 years ago when people like Bill Clinton, Hillary, and Obama used to call for enforcing laws against illegal immigration.
  - amanaplanacanal 8mo ago
    For a lot of people, it's not the laws, but the tactics. Personally, I think the whole system needs to be reformed.
tamimio 8mo ago
Cool, I just found that I don’t use any of these services. And I encourage the site owner to add instagram as well. >the most radical action in capitalist society is not participating So that’s why they are after NEETs now?
rafavento 8mo ago
Wouldn't be more effective for Galloway and his billionaire friends to dump these company's stock, maybe sell $900M each, use whatever money they get from that for good and still be left with $100M+ at the end? I don't like how he is parading himself everywhere like he's part of the solution, when he is actually part of the problem.
simon666 8mo ago
A rhetorical point: I think it's best to avoid "resist" language. 1. It's antiquated and arouses imagery and iconography that IMO many have negative associations with. (I'm leaving this a bit vague intentionally.) 2. Framing oneself or a movement as "resisting" is to frame one self or a movement in a weaker, defensive position. It's better to use to language that indicates actions and offense as opposed to defense. 3. Because of 1 this opens up typical lines of attack and characterization that make one's "resistance" an easy rhetorical target. No unforced errors. I don't have a sense of what would be a better alternative, but probably throwing things against the wall until something sticks/galvanizes people makes more sense. Something like "assert yourself", "push back"/"fight back", "take it to 'em" etc.
- JellyBeanThief 8mo ago
  I could get behind "exercise", as in your rights (while you have them), and your power (to stop relying on specific conveniences, businesses). Combines with imagery of gaining strength, independence.
- NietzscheanNull 8mo ago
  Perhaps "deny, defend, depose" – not sure where I heard that, but it has a certain mental impact.
  - MonkeyClub 8mo ago
    I am reminded of "turn on, tune in, drop out".
- vagrantstreet 8mo ago
  Or words such as "rise up" "fight the oppression". Resistance sounds like some shortform offensive action, I'd prefer something more long term that shows a better path or what you're missing out on. The people I see who uses aggressive language like that aren't who I want to be around with ironically enough.
  - simon666 8mo ago
Havoc 8mo ago
As much as I appreciate his impetus to do something I don’t think unsubscribing will move the needle. You’re still going to want shipping, entertainment and transport. Those dollars are still going to be spent somewhere. So don’t think it’ll move the market in aggregate
- UnreachableCode 8mo ago
  Shipping from whom? I haven't used Amazon in years. Entertainment - Blurays and CDs! Transport, who are we talking here? Unless you're giving Tesla your dollars, are you really supporting the regime? Forgive my ignorance here.
  - Havoc 8mo ago
    > Shipping from whom? I haven't used Amazon in years. But you’re still buying stuff. So either using a different shipping service or spending the money on diy shipping aka drive to store. It’s not about the specific example though. Merely pointing out that removing a subscription doesn’t inherently remove the need/want it is fulfilling and associated spending. You can’t move the overall market down if you’re just shifting economic activity between players in it. You’d need to get people to actually spend less and forgo the needs/wants entirely. Which is a tough ask and I don’t think is particularly viable
p3opl3 8mo ago
I have wanted to do something like this for the UK as well. But scared of losing my job.. if I could do this anonymously - oh man - that would be great.
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znpy 8mo ago

Ironic to see this posted here, as YCombinator is the nesr from which Sam Altman originally spread his wings. I’m keeping my chatgpt subscription though.

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delichon 8mo ago

Boycott Target | Ticker | Before (1/30/26) | After (2/13/26) | % Diff -------------------------|--------|------------------|-----------------|-------- Amazon | AMZN | 239.30 | 198.79 | -16.93 Uber | UBER | 80.05 | 69.99 | -12.57 Meta | META | 716.50 | 639.77 | -10.71 Alphabet (Google) | GOOGL | 338.00 | 305.72 | -9.55 Paramount (Skydance) | PARA | 11.21 | 10.32 | -7.94 Netflix | NFLX | 83.49 | 76.87 | -7.93 Microsoft | MSFT | 430.29 | 401.32 | -6.73 Apple | AAPL | 259.48 | 255.78 | -1.43 Dell | DELL | 114.44 | 117.49 | +2.66 Comcast (Xfinity) | CMCSA | 29.75 | 31.57 | +6.12 AT&T | T | 26.21 | 28.69 | +9.46 Marriott | MAR | 315.30 | 353.89 | +12.24 Charter (Spectrum) | CHTR | 206.12 | 239.09 | +16.00 FedEx | FDX | 322.25 | 374.72 | +16.28

emestifs 8mo ago
That's not very useful. The market has seen volatility for unrelated reasons over the past month. And effects of this, resist and unsubscribe, wouldn't be a factor so quickly. AFAIK this only launched less than a week or two ago.
- delichon 8mo ago
  It's too quick to reflect the fundamentals, but the market is priced on vibes. They move at the speed of rumor. But even with normal volatility, the boycott will have to be wildly effective to produce an unambiguous market signal.
Havoc 8mo ago
That’s just measuring noise and arbitrary market swings

mythrwy 8mo ago

What are we resisting?

selridge 8mo ago
You, looks like.
- pitched 8mo ago
  Not everyone here is American and the site is pretty vague about the specific grievances.
  - selridge 8mo ago
    Yeah that bigass yellow boxed paragraph is real unclear.
    - pitched 8mo ago
      > Americans are feeling powerless to thwart the Trump administration’s assault on our nation’s values. Praised by tech CEOs, surrounded by sycophants, and enriched by his return to the White House, the president’s actions march on unchecked. As far as I can tell, Americans love money, guns, and freedom. So Trump must be losing money, taking guns, and making everyone live with their parents. I think I’ll keep my ChatGPT subscription, sorry guys.
profsummergig 8mo ago
Apparently a return to the policies of 14 years ago when people like Bill Clinton, Hillary, and Obama used to call for enforcing laws against illegal immigration.
- amanaplanacanal 8mo ago
  For a lot of people, it's not the laws, but the tactics. Personally, I think the whole system needs to be reformed.

tamimio 8mo ago

Cool, I just found that I don’t use any of these services. And I encourage the site owner to add instagram as well. >the most radical action in capitalist society is not participating So that’s why they are after NEETs now?

rafavento 8mo ago

Wouldn't be more effective for Galloway and his billionaire friends to dump these company's stock, maybe sell $900M each, use whatever money they get from that for good and still be left with $100M+ at the end? I don't like how he is parading himself everywhere like he's part of the solution, when he is actually part of the problem.

simon666 8mo ago

A rhetorical point: I think it's best to avoid "resist" language. 1. It's antiquated and arouses imagery and iconography that IMO many have negative associations with. (I'm leaving this a bit vague intentionally.) 2. Framing oneself or a movement as "resisting" is to frame one self or a movement in a weaker, defensive position. It's better to use to language that indicates actions and offense as opposed to defense. 3. Because of 1 this opens up typical lines of attack and characterization that make one's "resistance" an easy rhetorical target. No unforced errors. I don't have a sense of what would be a better alternative, but probably throwing things against the wall until something sticks/galvanizes people makes more sense. Something like "assert yourself", "push back"/"fight back", "take it to 'em" etc.

JellyBeanThief 8mo ago
I could get behind "exercise", as in your rights (while you have them), and your power (to stop relying on specific conveniences, businesses). Combines with imagery of gaining strength, independence.
NietzscheanNull 8mo ago
Perhaps "deny, defend, depose" – not sure where I heard that, but it has a certain mental impact.
- MonkeyClub 8mo ago
  I am reminded of "turn on, tune in, drop out".
vagrantstreet 8mo ago
Or words such as "rise up" "fight the oppression". Resistance sounds like some shortform offensive action, I'd prefer something more long term that shows a better path or what you're missing out on. The people I see who uses aggressive language like that aren't who I want to be around with ironically enough.
- simon666 8mo ago

Havoc 8mo ago

As much as I appreciate his impetus to do something I don’t think unsubscribing will move the needle. You’re still going to want shipping, entertainment and transport. Those dollars are still going to be spent somewhere. So don’t think it’ll move the market in aggregate

UnreachableCode 8mo ago
Shipping from whom? I haven't used Amazon in years. Entertainment - Blurays and CDs! Transport, who are we talking here? Unless you're giving Tesla your dollars, are you really supporting the regime? Forgive my ignorance here.
- Havoc 8mo ago
  > Shipping from whom? I haven't used Amazon in years. But you’re still buying stuff. So either using a different shipping service or spending the money on diy shipping aka drive to store. It’s not about the specific example though. Merely pointing out that removing a subscription doesn’t inherently remove the need/want it is fulfilling and associated spending. You can’t move the overall market down if you’re just shifting economic activity between players in it. You’d need to get people to actually spend less and forgo the needs/wants entirely. Which is a tough ask and I don’t think is particularly viable

p3opl3 8mo ago

I have wanted to do something like this for the UK as well. But scared of losing my job.. if I could do this anonymously - oh man - that would be great.

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