> How about putting pressure on your reps to draw up some regulations?
I think the idea is to convince the company directly rather than relying on politicians.
> Because it obviously doesn’t work with these corporations.
There are some pretty glaring examples where it has worked. Nike sweatshops probably being the most visible. Boycotts and lawsuits hit the bottom line, which is what they ultimately care about.
Re:Boycotting Amazon
by not_kurt_godel on Monday April 16, 2018 @11:03PM
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> I think the idea is to convince the company directly rather than relying on politicians.
Relying on politicians is hard in the short term, but regulatory policy fixes the problem more or less permanently in an accountable, democratic, and globally applicable (in a national context) way. If we as a society believe what Amazon is doing is fundamentally wrong, why not prohibit legally rather than rely on an ad-hoc solution that will probably be circumvented once attention fades away?
Did Nike stop employing child labor for real? I thought people just stopped talking about it.
Amazon wouldn't shut down if successfully botcotted: they'd mucg more likely fix their employment practices.
So what happens now ? Assuming everyone boycotted Amazon and the unlikely event occurred and it shut down. What next? Tens of thousands of those works go home to what? Does the editor then start another campaign to employ all the people laid off? Think they’d be working there if they had a lot more options?
How about trying to fix the problem or at least fix as much as humanly possible? How about putting pressure on your reps to draw up some regulations? How about the government? Isn’t that what they’re there for? Do we have to resort to Social justice for everything now ? Because it obviously doesn’t work with these corporations. See Equifax, See Facebook ?