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How do you get people who can't see themselves boycotting indefinitely? You get them used to it by getting them on board to boycott for a fixed length of time. Ideally, as they warm up to the idea, you get them to boycott for longer.
I have ordered from them line 5 or 6 times, subscribed for a year because I wanted to watch a series by terry Pratchett, and never again interacted with it in the past 8 years or so. You are not boycotting food or water or oxygen.
Good job
True, but 7 days isn’t enough time for that. I’ve gone weeks between purchasing the kinds of things Amazon delivers, so it’d just be normal. 2+ months is probably better. Especially if those months are Nov & Dec.
Some people can't even handle a 1-day boycott. I think you're overestimating the average person's tolerance for discomfort.
I don't even understand what people buy so often. I can easily go a month without buying a new physical item that's not like, food
I really don’t get it either, how much shit do people need!?
I have spent the 38 years I have accumulated without needing to buy a single thing from that particular company. WTF?
Yeah but it lets people feel like they've boycotted. Which isn't coddling/faux activism so much as it is starter-activism. We don't want activism to seem hard... even though we know that effective activism pretty much requires meaningful changes to behaviour which often brings discomfort. People are really out of practice and our goal is getting people into the habit
Too late. If not buying unnecessary shit they don't need from a particular retailer that could be replaced by any other during a previously delimited week seems revolutionary to them... I'm sorry but... They are a huge part of the problem.