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[Maxperson]

Where are you getting that statistic from?

Can Holiday Shopping Boycotts Make a Difference?

We asked Yale SOM’s Zoe Chance, an expert on consumer behavior and persuasion, what makes boycotts effective and how companies should respond.

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The question is about holiday boycotts, but the information from the studies being used to assess are about boycotts in general.

Due to corporations going back on promises and a few other variables, they can't tell for certain how successful boycotts are, so it's in the 20%-40% range.

 

[Maxperson]

Something doesn't have to be perfect to be a step in the right direction.

I agree. I was just pointing out that there is a further step for folks who absolutely no longer want to support the company.

 

[Charlaquin]

Not explicitly.

Do you want to argue the implication isn't present?

Because, the question about alternate platforms could have been validly asked without any reference to Rowling. The reference, and how the entire thread became much more about Rowling and doing business with her, than platform, sends a message.

And there's no real problem with that. But people will react as if they live in an environment filled with such messages, and nobody should be the least bit surprised when folks get a bit defensive in that context.

I just think if one finds one’s self defending parties who are actively harming marginalized groups in order to defend one’s self from perceived implications that one is a bad person, merely because others are choosing not to support said parties financially… one probably ought to reflect on that a bit.

 

[Blue]

Pencil and paper.

Since we're digressing so hard in this thread . . .

How is paper still legal? I could probably buy some Meta glasses and write/read in thin air if I wanted to. (Not that I would.)

It may be possible that just the electricity generated and transmitted to charge meta glasses over the course of a campaign would be a higher environmental impact then a few sheets of paper, but when you count in all of the things like manufacturing the batteries and such it's not even close.

 

[GMMichael]

It may be possible that just the electricity generated and transmitted to charge meta glasses over the course of a campaign would be a higher environmental impact then a few sheets of paper, but when you count in all of the things like manufacturing the batteries and such it's not even close.

I was disparaging electric cars the other day, until I realized that some electricity does actually come from renewable sources. If only all of it did.

But if manufacturing and batteries (needed to create reusable writing devices) are worse for the environment than the paper industry, that suggests we somehow improve the environment by cutting down even more trees (and reducing manufacturing). Or is there a different conclusion I should draw?