Buying something is not "literally supporting anything," it is exchanging money for a good or service. It is reasonable to not buy something from a company because you dislike the company (hopefully for some factual reason). It isn't reasonable to equate buying something with "supporting slavery".
Your moral thinking is so impoverished that you conclude by recommending "building pipe bombs". Back to the drawing board.
Re:Diablo Immortal
by revolvingocelot on Sunday October 31, 2021 @05:49PM
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Well, if giving a company money doesn't support it, then you're absolutely right. But, of course, giving a company money does indeed support it, and insulting me doesn't change that.
Your moral thinking is so incredibly wealthy that you can't accept that financially supporting slavery is wrong.
>>> eliding the simple fact that buying products from a company, shitty or otherwise, is literally supporting that company and its owners.
>No, it's literally paying money in exchange for a good or service.
No, it's supporting the company. The company wouldn't exist if buying things from it didn't support it. Companies need money to support their supply chains, workers, and management, in order to sell things in order to make money. What does "supporting a company" mean to you? Taking it out to the pub after a bad breakup? Ridiculous. Companies, the general economic unit of our capitalist world, are fed by money, be it VC or customer. "Vote with your dollar" is woefully inadequate to address the problem, but beyond building pipe bombs it's the most efficacious tool we as individuals can wield.