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grueOkay, but giving Sony money is not the most effective way to express that sentiment.
I mean, what’s the reverse of a boycott?
Boycotts don’t work either, for that matter.
It’s weird that we so often see political/social problems and think “I know, I’ll help solve this by giving (or withholding) my money from some for-profit corporation and hope the influence will trickle down to the cause I actually care about!”
Instead, you know we could just support activists working to advance that cause (or outlaw that bad corporate behavior) directly, right?
The two are not mutually exclusive. For-profit corporations react to, well, changes in profit. It’s not about the influence ‘trickling down’, it’s about punishing bad behavior on the part of corporations in the only way that they actually understand - something which other corporations, desperate to please their shareholders, take note of.
Boycotts, performed by a sufficient percentage of the consumer base, do what they are intended to do - adjust corporate behavior. Nothing deeper - but far from pointless. And considering how fucking difficult it is to pass regulations, and how even with a friendly legislature such things take considerable amounts of time and must avoid violating corporate ‘rights’, boycotts are not a tool to be discarded out-of-hand.
As long as for-profit corporations exist - and they appear to be well-established to continue to do so for the near-future - we must deal with them as they are, not as we wish them to be (ie well-regulated or gone).
As long as for-profit corporations exist - and they appear to be well-established to continue to do so for the near-future - we must deal with them as they are, not as we wish them to be (ie well-regulated or gone).
Too many people have gotten so accustomed to “deal[IMG with them as they are”
Look man, “Abolish for-profit corporations, and all that implies” has significant support on here, but not so much in meatspace America. Most of us are trying to play the cards we have with the players we have.
They haven’t ‘lost sight’ of the real problem, they disagree that there is a problem to begin with. And we, as leftists, have to work against that being the dominant view. But that’s groundwork, and boycotts are action for more immediate purposes. Two entirely different undertakings.
Still weird that you’re white-knighting for Sony, though.
Weird that you’re on here arguing with people instead of changing the laws. If they’re not doing enough, then what the fuck are you doing?