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That is why I get tired about the "individual action" suggestion, that I alone could stop using Amazon and hurt their sales, I could de-Google my life and keep my privacy, or recycle plastic and save the ocean, or swear off AI to fuck with Nvidia.

But all that is a drop in the bucket compared to the millions of people who all readily handed over their lives to these companies and haven't left (or can't). And governments who abdicated regulatory authority to them, which have allowed them to run rampant.

They're still making it so these massive companies have force in my life. I alone can't do anything about that.

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Quexotic@beehaw.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Hmm are you implying collective actions are in order?

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flora_explora@beehaw.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Maybe you should give the article a read then? It is saying exactly that, that individual actions and consumer activism don’t do shit and structural changes are needed. It even gives some examples for structural changes that could be helpful in the short-term.

I added this anecdote just because I was surprised at the scale that Amazon had an impact on the economy. And yes, it obviously didn’t do much when I took individual action and boycotted them (apart from giving me a feeling of some integrity).

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- HarkMahlberg@kbin.earth ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  100% with you, well put
  
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