When I cancel a subscription to Disney+, no one loses their job. I think that's an important distinction.

It's completely irrelevant. And, yes, reducing you spending does lead to job losses.

I strongly disagree; my reduction in spending doesn't lead to job losses at any particular company. Perhaps if said company is providing such little service that many people choose to reduce their spending by all spending less on the same company, job losses would result.

In this case we're talking about a lot of people at a pretty far remove from the employees being laid off. This is very different from what is happening at Google UK. So much so that I don't believe the comparison is at all useful.

Its the perfect comparison.

Reduced spending on goods and services reduces revenues, which reduces profits and often leads to lay offs.

Sure your individual decision to cancel Disney+ doesnt mean someone gets fired.

But if you and 500,000 other subscribers cancel, people do get fired and you contributed to it.

If I subscribe to Disney+, chances are I'm not also subscribing to another streaming service. As a result, people get fired and I contributed to it.

> I strongly disagree; my reduction in spending doesn't lead to job losses at any particular company.

It'll lead to fractional joblosses based on the amount you reduce your spending. Are you upset because Google is bigger than you and if you and they do the same relative actions, their absolute numbers will be much bigger?

If you dump your trash in the park, it'll be barely noticeable. If Google does it, it's no longer a park. Yes, but it's still the same thing, you're just a lot smaller than Google.

Your decision to cancel a subscription is more like the decision to lower a departments budget by an almost immeasurable amount.

But they do. The budget for the next productions will be slightly smaller. Yes, it's small but they add up.

Well, in aggregate and over time they do.

Well there should be rules against this. NYTimes is vital to Democracy and needs your money.