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this post was submitted on 11 Feb 2025
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See, this isn't viable.
This is the "ban plastic straws" of late stage capitalism. Overrepresenting individual action to distract from the need of structural reform.
Stop voting with your wallet, it's pointless. Consumption is not expressing support. Vote with your votes, if you're in a place where you have a chance to do so, find other ways to organize collective action if you don't.
The two are not mutually exclusive...
People can take direct action
People can organized and act as a group in solidarity.
Yes... consume like a brain dead idiot, esp follow shiti marketing campaigns online, deff make sure you buy that trash 🤡
And remember... "voting" is how we got here in the first place.
Americans don't understand what going into proper opposition means. hint, it aint voting for the "other" guy
If you're in a country with a two party system then voting has even less impact that than giving your money to a more worthwhile company.
You may not support them with your words but giving them money is literally support. Like giving a horse an apple and then saying you're not feeding it.
No, it's like giving the horse a sugar cube where you own exactly one of the grains of sugar, taking your grain of sugar away and pretending you've made a difference.
Or, you know, banning plastic straws.
You're absolutely wrong about two party systems in any case, even those have tons of elected roles in different layers of governance where changes matter. And that's also where the collective action comes in. Your feel-good token choices of companies and services to avoid haven't done anything in the past thirty years and aren't going to start now.
Individually we do not make much of a difference in anything but that's an excuse to avoid searching for a better company and often tolerating a worse offer (e.g. a fair trade product that costs more, or lacks modern features).
Change in politics certainly matters but your individual support of a political party in terms of one vote has practically no affect on the result in a winner-take-all/first-past-the-post voting system. Your individual "vote" in support of a company is at least a non-zero value, and sometimes is multiple "votes" per year.
People often say it would be better if just more people voted, but that's only helpful for them because they imagine they would vote for the main party they like the most. I doubt that's the case. The most important structural reform imo is to increase the representation of the public in government - and it's not a main party's self interests to do that. Voting is unlikely to change that.