Forum Post: BUYcott Good Corporations While Boycotting the Bad
Posted 13 years ago on Oct. 6, 2011, 12:01 a.m. EST by RewardAndConsent
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Followers of Occupy Wall Street are saying, "boycott the irresponsible corporations." That's ok, but many people want to know where to buy needed products and services while we're boycotting a business. We can match every boycott with a corresponding BUYcott.
See more about BUYcott/boycott at http://rewardandconsent.blogspot.com/2011/10/buycott-good-corporations-while.html
This movement is much larger and will be more powerful than what can be obtained by boycotting and "BUYcotting" various corporations. What can be accomplished by that is very little, especially since it will be tough to make enough people do it to make a difference.
At the very least we intend to take away the corporation's political power, which they value much more than whether you don't buy their brand of paper towels for a couple months.
What is your reason for poopooing on this great idea of boycotting corporations? Are you saying this because your own life is far too ingrained in the luxuries of the products these corporations sell you?
My problem with "revolutionaries" is that they all feel the problem is on the outside, when really the problem lies from the inside. If you want change, it NEEDS to be on an individual basis. Start with yourself, and you boycott corporations. Who cares if no one else does?
If you want to boycott a corporation that's fine, but there's not enough alternatives to really live a modern lifestyle with what's available. Sure, if I was a millionaire I could go around and only buy things from local vendors. But I'm not. I'm part of the 99%, and my disposable income doesn't allow me to purchase things at a premium.
Have you already forgotten about Henry David Thoreau? Has the life of our most American of American's taught you nothing?
The problem I see with the 99% (and I consider myself one of them) is that we aren't willing to change ourselves. We want to change this corrupted economic game--we want to reform it. What the 99% don't realize is the best way to reform a tainted society is to drop out of this game entirely.
By which I mean, revolution starts from the inside. It starts with realizing you don't have to play their game. Read Thoreau. If we drop out of this game, then it can't thrive. That will change it.
Sure, I just don't think having a couple activists drop out is going to fix things rapidly enough to save our country and our planet. But sure, if you are inclined to do it it will help at least in some small way.
ALL of the corporations are irresponsible. and who was going shopping at goldman sachs anyhow?
one more of dozens of boycott threads i have to link together as you didn;t bother to read the last two dozen times we al lpointed out that boycotts aren't useful to us. Are you with the unions? we ain't doin it.