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  • K.

    So one group has trained for decades to heal the sick and provide guidance to be more healthy and the other spent it's time learning how to take as much as possible from their customers.

    Which one is more likely to align with the patient's interest?

  • I'm not voluntarily giving up jack shit unless the wealthy who devised and profit off the systems that make carbon footprints matter, are brought to heel. If the wealthy can't be stopped, we're all dead anyways. It's their fucking mess, they can be the ones to sacrifice to fix it. We can all die together, better that than let the people who threaten our extinction be the only ones left to inherit the world.

  • Consumer activism kills businesses and products regularly. We call it 'trends'.

    But manufacturing a boycott for long enough to work is almost certainly going to fail. But like you say, it has a role to play, just not by itself. It must be an action used with precision as part of a larger strategy. We have plenty of tools, but nobody puts them together. It's always an isolated boycott that flairs up and inevitably fades away. The company just waits it out. We also can't boycott necessities, and that's where they really get us. Consumer activism doesn't work all in those cases.

  • Yet we keep empowering them with every purchase we make and half of the consumer base will never see an issue doing so. Some purchases we have no choice but to make, and that's where they really have control of our lives. They seized the means of production, distribution and access of things necessary for life and leverage access to those necessities for access to more parts of our private lives. The majority appear to be naive morons who will happily sell all of us down the river for more camera filters and some pretty shoes. Basically, toys. We are losing our rights, our privacy, and control of our lives in exchange for toys...