Trying to Avoid Politically Active Corporations

[Staggerlee666]

Just remember that when you are done with your list of "liberal" companies to boycott, you may end up realizing that you can't eat Exxonmobil gasoline, which will be about the only brand supporting this presidency.

[AtkinsonDan]

Originally Posted by Drewjdeg

Well you're going to have to boycott nearly every corporation then.

I am not that unrealistic. The political activism of corporations runs the gamut from mildly active to heavily active. Furthermore different corporations practice activism on different topics.

Me personally, I do not like how aggressive the entertainment and infotainment industries have become in their activism. I view Comcast and Google as the choke-points in those industries, meaning that the money/information I give to them fuels several other players down the line. Cutting off these two companies has a cascading effect that reaches even very liberal communities. For example: terminating Comcast means less money paid to Disney via carriage fees. That results in less revenue for ESPN which eventually has a negative effect on liberal Connecticut as that is where ESPN resides. Multiply that effect by all the infotainment companies to whom Comcast pays carriage fees.

[juneaubound]

Originally Posted by AtkinsonDan

I am not that unrealistic. The political activism of corporations runs the gamut from mildly active to heavily active. Furthermore different corporations practice activism on different topics.

Me personally, I do not like how aggressive the entertainment and infotainment industries have become in their activism. I view Comcast and Google as the choke-points in those industries, meaning that the money/information I give to them fuels several other players down the line. Cutting off these two companies has a cascading effect that reaches even very liberal communities. For example: terminating Comcast means less money paid to Disney via carriage fees. That results in less revenue for ESPN which eventually has a negative effect on liberal Connecticut as that is where ESPN resides. Multiply that effect by all the infotainment companies to whom Comcast pays carriage fees.

My needs have become very simple over the past few years and I live far enough from civilization so as to not have to deal with it a whole lot anymore. We have three well maintained, fully paid for, older used vehicles (all four wheel drive, two suv's and one truck). We never go to the movies anymore - partly because of a lack of desire to support the whack jobs that entertainers are, and partly because we have no desire anymore to sit in a dark room full of strangers. We're quite content to wait until a movie comes out on DVD or (more likely) wait another year or two and watch it on TV. All of our furniture and appliances are high quality used - bought after a great deal of searching through local online FB classifieds, Craigslist or yard sales. Most of our clothes are bought the same way. We buy our groceries from locally owned small businesses and wander into Walmart maybe four times a year.

Spend more time hiking, mountain biking, kayaking and cross country skiing than I do going to shows, sports events, or restaurants, so in truth the "world" doesn't get a whole lot of my money.