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Americans don't pay attention to news beyond the watered down evening news or short internet/newspaper blurbs, which is why they continue to mindlessly shop at one of the major contributors of job loss in this country due to outsourcing...not to mention their predatory business practices or lack of workplace ethics.
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Spirit Air: for charging to carry on baggage. As a practical matter, the airline doesn't serve destinations I would fly to. I suppose BP will be boycotted. McDonalds is a tempting target for many reasons: perceived unhealthy food, low wages for workers, multinational. But much of it is unfounded.
I refuse to shop at the "town across the river" - where the squirrels are black and the trash is white. They have installed red-light cameras at several key intersections just inside their city limits, shortened the duration of the yellow lights, and are sending out $107.50 tickets like nobody's business.
I've written to their City Council and explained to them that they have lost the tax revenue off of tens of thousands of dollars of building materials I buy every year. Their chairperson has done nothing but smart off and make excuses.
I hope this is a thread about the philosophy and/or the merit of boycotting, in order to keep it within the scope of Grat Debates.
I do not boycott any companies, because they are all equally despicable, and I never buy anything anyway that I can't obtain second-hand, except for a very few things. I'll buy loss-leaders anywhere---they lose money by delivering the product to me, so boycotting a loss-leader would be counterproductive. There are certain companies I would not do business with based on prior experience with the company, but that is not a 'boycott'.
I do, however, boycott political entities, because they are not equally despicable. I would now boycott Arizona, if I get the chance. I boycotted Wisconsin, when they dismantled their public assistance programs, and instead gave the money to the private sector which made believe it was 'retraining' workers, but kept most of the money for themselves, and then the state denied all the 'retrained but still unemployed' workers any relief benefits. That was hard to do, because at the time, my mother lived in Wisconsin. I would have to go there, but avoided buying anything. I would probably not buy anything from Israel, but I can't remember ever having seen an Israel-made product for sale.
Some boycotts are just plain silly. Like, if I said I refused to watch the televised game of my favorite team playing the Arizona Diamondbacks, what is the point of that?
I do not boycott any companies, because they are all equally despicable
All of them? Equally? Why? Is making a profit a bad thing? Should the fruits of everybody's labor be distributed among their peers with no compensation to the individual?
I hope this is a thread about the philosophy and/or the merit of boycotting, in order to keep it within the scope of Grat Debates.
I do not boycott any companies, because they are all equally despicable, and I never buy anything anyway that I can't obtain second-hand, except for a very few things...
Some boycotts are just plain silly. Like, if I said I refused to watch the televised game of my favorite team playing the Arizona Diamondbacks, what is the point of that?
i agree with you on most of your points. esspecially the emboldened ones i've come to see that people who "boycott" banks usually went into the negative and didn't get their overdraft or non sufficient funds fee's back.
i wanted to boycott bank of america when i went negative from their "debits and withdrawls first, then deposits" method of sorting transactions, but then i realized that most of the banks, that didn't go under in the recession, did that. I switched to credit unions.
instead of boycotting a certain company, i change my method of purchasing services or products.
boycotting a car dealership who didn't tell you they were adding a completely unnecessary 3,000 dollar fee onto your brand new car is not going to change a thing. reading the fine print on every contract you sign, and walking into a dealership with a dollar figure and a good idea of what car you want and what its worth, is the way to get things done.
when world market CEO declared he supported the tea party, democrats boycotted his store, (IIRC) but that blew over and people went back to their daily lives. if people were truely determined to shift his focus, they would have changed their shopping habits to other stores and delivered a financial hurdle to the store.
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