I have many, many reasons for not giving my money to Uber, Amazon, and companies that manufacture goods in sweatshops. And consumer activism absolutely is activism. It's not enough but to suggest otherwise in defense of making lazy, cheaper choices is wrong.
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Yes, it's good to spend your money in more reasonable places but there is NO ethical consumption under capitalism and I reject the idea that purchasing decisions in a complex world merely reduce to 'lazy.'
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I think we agree on more things than we disagree on, but throwing up your hands at the idea of making more ethical choices because capitalism is bad is absolutely lazy. Maybe that's an oversimplification of your argument but such is the world of tweets.
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I literally said making more ethical choices is good. I also said that not flagellating yourself over every purchasing decision is also good. The problem isn't the consumer. It's the corporation.
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Agree. Not looking for fisticuffs. But I see problems EVERYWHERE. Down with the corporation, etc., absolutely, though.
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We have to be wary over the way out blame seems to seek out the talented, professional, young woman speaking truth to power (my quoted tweet) and not, idk, the drunk bros who do the same things at scale.
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Now, here's something we can definitely 100% agree on.
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I'm not a fan of Uber's crap treatment of their employees, I mean "contractors", but there are so many places that aren't airports, hotels or busy metropolitan areas where TAXIS take 1 hr. My phone died at work conf in Cincinnati so I called a cab, killled my afternoon basically
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Yep. And like minimizing your footprint of using those services is good but we all have lives to live.
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Exactly
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"Vote with your wallet" doesn't really work when 0.01% of people have all the money
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I could not disagree with you more, it is everyone's job to make sure everything they do ( as much as possible) lines up with their beliefs.... marching in the streets change nothing.... but hundreds of thousands of people refusing to buy something maybe millions can change
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You honestly think we're gonna get that many people?
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This is so freeing.
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