for products which are arguably necessary, or otherwise unreasonable to drop, it provides a way for consumers to vote with their wallet.
say, streaming services.
im not saying people should do it.
its morally wrong. people shouldnt.
but it does do that thin, and refusing to acknowledge it feels dishonest
pirating as a “none of the above” option for voting with your dollar dosen’t work because voting with your dollar is a fake concept
you get the product, but you break the law, which is already risky as fuck, and the company just won’t bother because it’s hard to determine the exact numbers of people pirating the game and just won’t bother because it’s not denting their profit margin
basically don’t pirate things
you’re not being a radical bohemian living outside of the system, you’re just breaking the law to very little actual benefit
One particular chain. Boycotting the financial sector wouldn’t be a boycott, it’d be the start of a disasterous revolution, and you know it.
just begin switching everything over from one to the other.
you would stop letting them borrow your money for as much as possible.
actually the way you destroy a bank is to deliberately get all of that bank’s customers to withdraw their money en masse, because they will never have enough money in the back
the government bails them out, but the bank has to change their tune when the shareholders are compensated
pity about the economic crash that happens when the bank falls that fucks over more people than the bank were ori- oh
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it turns out banks are impossible to boycott effectively because mass exoduses of customers isn’t a credible threat
there’s the thought experiment
So you are telling me the bank don’t have an endless supply of cash
this is fake news, better luck next time