That's one of the many reasons strikes both work better and are more morally defensible than boycotts -- it's workers deciding to withhold their own labor, not customers withholding their dollars (which, if you've read Marx, is a fake abstract form of "value" and not real value)
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But anyway *every single* boycott has the problem that it "hurts the workers" and people who bring that shit up for one boycott but not others are engaging in textbook special pleading I.e. you just want to buy the Harry Potter game and are making excuses
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It's not like there aren't a ton of poor people who desperately need their paycheck who would theoretically get hurt short-term from a successful boycott of Amazon, or Chick Fil-A, or a racist bus company
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If this is about what I think it is: I think a lot of people are wildly underestimating the vast magnitude of HPs cultural reach.
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