Profits down
Fire 5000 workers
Profits up for 1 month
Give yourself a 30% raise
Profits go down cause your products suck, you fired the QA team
Fire 3000 workers
Profits up for 1 month
Give yourself 30% raise
Fired as CEO
Immediately hired elsewhere cause you have experience
Repeat
if only people just… stopped giving them money. honestly. let these companies all die. too big to fail my ass…
I’ve been working on this for years but its fucking hard.
Not just because things like gardening and making your own bread takes effort to do and learn, but because TO DO THOSE THINGS YOU STILL NEED PRODUCTS.
AND THEN YOU FIND OUT THAT THE SEED COMPANY YOU WENT TO THAT WAS SUPPOSED TO BE INDEPENDENT IS CONTRACTED BY FUCKING RAYTHEON OR SOME SHIT AND THE LOCALLY SOURCED BAKING SODA YOU BOUGHT TO MAKE YOUR OWN SHAMPOO IS OWNED BY NESTLE AND THE DEER YOU BOW HUNTED WAS ACTUALLY BRED FOR HUNTING BY A BLACKWATER SUBSIDIARY AND EVERYTHING IS JUST OWNED BY LIKE 10 EVIL ASS COMPANIES!!
Which is why I truly think we are past the point where boycotts can be effective anymore.
On one hand, the choice to be ethical is seen by corporations as a meaningless consumer choice, like picking between two breakfast cereals; on the other hand it helps develop the mindset that will be needed to reform society as time goes on: Long-term thinking, collectivism. Yes it is hard to try to do the right thing when your actions have no perceivable impact.
Hey man, you might wanna read up on aquaponics systems.
Even if we somehow managed to launch a successful boycott champaign whats to stop them from just stealing tax money from the government?
I’ve always said CEO is a job that most on its face presents the nepotism of class. You’re a rich CEO? You will be able to get jobs as rich CEO, just for the simple fact that you are part of that class. It really made me angry when I learned how rarely CEO’s are chosen from inside the company.
You don’t hire a company man to be CEO for the same reason you send out-of-state national guard to put down a protest.
