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[–] shplane@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Voting with your wallet can be a boycott. Seems like you’re really mincing words here and creating a false equivalent to recycling plastic that no one else is using as a comparison.

[–] theneverfox@pawb.social 0 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

It's not a false equivalence, it's the same exact thing

Its a lie. The lie is "you can do collective action individually". You can't... That's not how any of this works

Boycotts are real. Voting with your wallet is just shopping.

There's no message to it, no power - just a slice of consumers to market to differently or a need to pivot

[–] shplane@lemmy.world 1 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

You can vote with your wallet by not shopping.

[–] theneverfox@pawb.social 1 points 17 hours ago

No, you can't. You can reduce your consumption, and that's great

But you have to eat. You have to wear clothes. You likely have to drive and to pay rent or buy appliances. You have to buy entertainment, because honestly most everything is monitised to crazy levels.

You can't opt out. You can be a different kind of shopper. You can be an anomolus data point. But even if you live in a self built lean to and live as a freegan vegan, you've changed nothing if you've done it alone