You should be boycotting these companies already because they support extreme right politics by their ALEC membership:
- FedEx
- UPS
- Motorola
- Anheuser Busch
- American Express
- Bose
- Chevron
- Marlboro
- Sony
- Texaco
- Boeing (fly on Airbus instead, see how to boycott Boeing)
You should be boycotting Amazon for many reasons.
If you oppose private prisons, then you already boycott these banks:
- #BankOfAmerica (#BofA)
- #FifthThird
- #JPMorgan #Chase
- #PNC Bank
- #Suntrust
- #USBank (#USBancorp)
- #WellsFargo
Don’t think they are out of reach to Europe – many European small banks that you assume are ethical actually outsource their investments to JP Morgan. Also, BofA uses different branding outside the US.
If you like transparency with food labeling, then you endorse labeling of #GMO food, in which case you boycott companies that lobbied against GMO labeling. There are hundreds of companies that fucked us over, but these are the top ten financers of anti-labeling lobby:
- PepsiCo
- Nestlé
- General Mills
- Coca-Cola
- ConAgra
- Campbell Soup
- The Hershey Company
- J.M. Smucker
- Kellogg
- Mondelez
Some of those mushroom into many brands. See the attached infographic.
We don’t need to go into all of these details. Cutting off the obvious few (like ditching whatsapp for signal) will get you 90% of the way there. But it’s a lot of effort to get to 91%.
Screw that, your energy is better spent elsewhere. Do 90%.
Agreed, this is very political and obsessive. Its not what the boycotting is about.
It’s a progression for sure. But there is no reason to draw an arbitrary line and give up. If you always look for ways to advance your ethical lifestyle, you will continually be able to feel a sense of greater progress from the former you.
I even nix whole cities. Oh, this city is uncyclable? Fuck that city; I won’t live there – I’m done with cars and the whole fucking car industry.
It’s not arbitary. It’s the line between reasonable and obsessive/wasteful
^ fixed it for you. Everyone has a level of tolerance for inconvenience which can fall anywhere between 0% and 100%, to use your bizarre scale of percentages where a migration from whatsapp to signal is “90%” progress in solving the world’s problems. I cannot imagine how uninformed someone must be about all the surveillance advertising to think that 90% can be attributed to whatsapp, which uses the same tech that Signal uses. Yes, FB hired Open Whisper Systems to implement their tech in whatsapp. You’re talking about a change that is symbolic at best. It’s not even a fart in an ocean of significance.
.It takes 90% of the effort to get from 90% to 91%. You make a whole lot bigger impact spending that energy getting someone else to 90% too.
Stop pretending the world is black and white.
Learn how to save text files, convert HTML to plain text, and use grep; maybe some emacs org mode. It’s not that hard if you have some tech competence. The figures you give are for tech illiterates.
ctrl+F?
It’s becoming clear why the effort is so high for you. Loading every document into buffers where you can use control-f in each buffer to inspect each hit one at a time is of course labor intensive. Study grep and filesystems. You can get more info with less time and effort that way.
Ahh, that’s the confusion. You think I bothered looking through this mess you made at all