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puts the burden on individuals to do invest an inordinate amount of time and research for typically minimal returns
I really don’t like that statement at all. Individuals SHOULD think about what and from whom they buy. And let’s please not pretend this is something you have to invest hours of your day into - nestle products are very clearly branded, windows is very clearly branded etc. I’m not mad at people for not being able to identify every single sub-company of nestle, coca-cola etc.
Voting with your wallet also shames those who don’t have the financial resources to feasibly pay for “more ethical” things, which are typically also more expensive.
In some cases, absolutely. But let’s not pretend like nestle branded products are always cheaper than the store-brand alternative. And if we’re talking about iPhones, well, I don’t think we have to talk a lot about those.
or example, boycotting, meaning organized movements with specific demands, does move the needle
That IS voting with your wallet, but on a larger, more organized scale. However, if people were more conscious about their purchases, individual boycotts would be similarly effective.
That would be crazy and - probably - not legally enforceable, even in current state america.
Dying Light 1 is the best one anyways - DL2 was a big step down and DL:TB was fine, but wasn’t able to really “connect” to DL1 either. DL1 just had everything - great combat, great parcour, creepy nights with an actual INCENTIVE to go out (to kill bolters) - I honestly don’t know why they are unable to replicate that success.
To answer the question - Rimworld and Project Zomboid. As always.
15% loss in profit affects any business, no matter what they sell.
Companies care about making money, if you and many many many more people stop giving them money, they will be negatively affected. What kind of example do you need?
I’ll disagree. We had a lot of success stories regarding that. The most prominent is the recent bud light boycott (even tho for the, in my opinion, wrong reason), but before, we had:
- Star Wars Battlefront II boycott: Very successful one where EA actually had to do a 180 on MTX.
- Wizards of the Coast D&D Licence backlash: https://www.axios.com/2023/01/23/dungeons-dragons-ogl-wizards-of-the-coast
- Uber boycott: https://www.businessinsider.com/uber-deleteuber-protest-hundreds-of-thousands-quit-app-2019-4
- Older, but relevant - the Shell boycott in 95: https://www.greenpeace.de/klimaschutz/energiewende/oelausstieg/chronik-konzern-versenkt-image (I can somehow only find this german one, maybe you can find an english one)
So no, boycotts do work. It has worked earlier and can work now.
The problem is that most people are complacent and straightup don’t want to bear the responsibility of doing something against those corporations.
2·1 day agoI don’t think something like that will ever exist. There is stuff like the R36S (https://r36sgameconsole.com/) that is great for older games up to the PS1. That thing also runs emulationstation and arkOS.
But PS3 emulation (and PS2 to some extent) is fairly taxing - so a 150 bucks device will most likely never be able to provide a good experience. I’m pretty sure that RPCS3 is expecting a RX5000 or a GTX 2000 series card which by itself costs more than 150 bucks, even now lol.
I somehow doubt the goverment can disallow you from not buying certain products.
If law enforcement has to get invovled via anti-trust laws, society has already failed. If society would be more responsible with their purchases, we didn’t need law enforcement clean up our messes.
There is literally no product you can buy in a capitalist system that did not feature suffering somewhere along the manufacturing pipeline.
That’s a common excuse for not doing anything at all. You don’t have to make the world 100% better. Sometimes, 20% is already plenty.
The thing is, there are other smartphones out there. You don’t have to go with the big heartless corporation. There are phones like fairphones (https://shop.fairphone.com/) or Shiftphones (https://www.shift.eco/en/). So let’s please not pretend you can only choose between the immoral behemoths when it comes to smartphones - or most other sectors, to be honest.
And I should probably add - you CAN still buy a refurbished google phone, for example - infact, I would consider a refurbed google pixel with graphene OS on it the best option for people that want privacy and want to act morally correct.
but short-term fluctuations
If ~15% of all people stop buying a companies products, this is not a short-term fluctuation. It’s a long-term impact on the companies bottom line.
Just because you were gifted it doesn’t mean you have to use it. You can sell it on the second hand market and buy something else. My parents used to gift me kitkats for years until they realized those are nestle and I always gave them to coworkers or friends.
The first panel is pretty accurate tho.
The best way to show a company you do not want to support them or their practices is to stop giving them money. Voting with your wallet is the thing that’ll be the the most notably change in an earnings call. I feel many people forgot that.
It’s not always convenient, but you can’t just take all the benefits of a capitalist system without having any of the responsibilities.
It’s almost funny how sometimes, this works, but for the completely wrong reasons. Bud light tanked HARD - because of a trans ad. Coca-Cola had an (somewhat unsuccessful) boycott - because of alleged connections to Israel. On the other hand, nestle has been killing people in Africa for at least 2 decades by buying up the entire water supply and nobody seems to really care.
I’d really like to see people take some responsibility and think about which company they are giving their money.
15·2 days agoThe author never played super mario maker
No, just burn it down. Those tiny pieces are still toxic as fuck.
I usually do if a game interests me. There’s no real downside compared to buying at release.
1421·3 days agoI feel there is nutjobs on both sides tbh.
People expect those kind of bullshit bingos.
Unless people stop expecting that from companies and see them as the emotionless money machine they are, you will keep seeing that. But just look how many morons buy shit on pride month when it’s clear companies don’t care, they just want money.