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I don't agree with the person above you in as much as the way they are doing it is very individualist "vote with your wallet", and yes, you're right that it's very ineffective.

The more effective way is to form a group, call it a "club" or whatever, that does it. The group can then advertise to other people and get more people to join the club. Eventually, it becomes large enough to gain political power. This is called "unionizing" — people with a shared interest joining together for a common goal. Eventually you get large enough to hold the corporations over a barrel, either through strikes or a mass disinterest in buying products, etc.

The only reason we have a 40-hour work week is because of unionizing, it's a very, very effective tactic that is severely underutilized.




Influencing is far more powerful than unionizing. And activism is an ineffective form of influencing.


In the UK, McDonalds workers unionized, and now they get paid 15£/hr.

The problem with Unionizing in the US, is there's very little cultural problem with crossing picket lines.




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