My not owning shares of a company doesnt make them any less bad, at least if in own shares I can vote on who is elected to the board and what direction they take things.
If enough like minded people with money wanted to do to corecivic what elon musk did to Twitter the way to do that is by owning enough stock to do a hostile takeover and force the company to shut down.
idiomaddict@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Are you organizing in any way to see that you can cooperate with like minded people? I’m not trying to be rude, but you should really think about the effect you want to leave on the world (not just you, everyone should).
HappyTimeHarry@lemm.ee 2 weeks ago
I wish I could find like minded people but I’m not a skilled organizer, I’m too much of a pessimist.
idiomaddict@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Then it really seems like you’re providing funds for slavery and wishing it wasn’t harmful.
HappyTimeHarry@lemm.ee 2 weeks ago
How do you think companies like core civic actually get funding? The reason their stock is booming on trumps win is because the government is who’s gonna be paying for all those bunks and cages to get filled, yet I doubt many people are going to refuse to pay their federal taxes.
Your money gets used for harmful stuff at some point no matter what you do, I’m not wishing anything, I’m accepting reality, capitalism is unethical at every level, some people draw a line at prison labor while others have no problem eating chocolate from child slaves or using a iPhone made by suicidal workers in a factory that pays them next to nothing.
Unless you live the life of a monk who grows all their own food you are most likely benefiting from some kind of human exploitation, more then likely the history of the device you use to read lemmy is filled with suffering workers being exploited at every step of the way.