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Boycotts don't work either, for that matter.
It's weird that we so often see political/social problems and think "I know, I'll help solve this by giving (or withholding) my money from some for-profit corporation and hope the influence will trickle down to the cause I actually care about!"
Instead, you know we could just support activists working to advance that cause (or outlaw that bad corporate behavior) directly, right?
I just think it's myopic and counterproductive that so many people seem to think "vote with your dollar" is the only strategy to consider, especially when they're working-class and have negligible numbers of dollars to vote with.
Edit: I have been boycotting Sony for 20 fucking years now, ever since they put rootkits in music CDs. I'm not saying "don't boycott things;" I'm just realistic about how effective they are. Getting Kimmel back on the air is the exception, not the rule.
Dude, the internet just bullied Disney into rehiring Jimmy Kimmel. Do you know how? Boycotting Disney's subscription services, unsubscribbing, and stating that it's because they fired Kimmel.
A for profit corp will absolutely change course if their wallet takes a big enough dent.
And yet it did fuck-all to solve the underlying problem of Trump shitting on the First Amendment and getting away with it.
The solution to that can only be political.
The underlying problem is that like half of Americans only pay lip service to the First Amendment.