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What brands should we NOT boycott?
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this post was submitted on 04 Apr 2025
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Since employees end up suffering more from boycotts than executives or investors do, I don't think you should boycott anything. If you really need the delusion of being an avenging angel of justice without misdirecting it at people who are no richer than you, maybe go vandalize a CEO's car.
That's an uneducated take. The amount of goods and services required by a population as a whole isn't affected by boycotts. What one company loses others will replace since they have a profit motive to do so. This requires them to hire additional labour which can easily come from what labour boycotted companies lay off.
That's assuming a boycott has such a large impact as to require a workforce adjustment which is basically a fantasy scenario in most cases.
Stop convincing people into more apathy than is already plaguing us.
IMO the uneducated take would be to think passages from an Econ101 book reflected the IRL hardships of changing jobs, possibly relocating, being out of work during the transition, willingness to take a pay cut out of desperation, etc. The word "sophomore" comes from the Greek term meaning "wise idiot" - closely related to the Dunning Kruger effect. Also "apathy" doesn't mean recognizing ineffective, self-serving virtue-signalling for what it is.
edit: wow, people REALLY hate thinking the laziest possible "action" hits the wrong targets. To repeat: boycotts hurt employees more than investors and CEOs. The important thing is to bury this piece of truth deep in the ground and keep feeling the righteous glow of "doing something" even if it's ultimately self-defeating.