Boycotts

In which Rat has a suggestion

Good time of day, humans!

Transcript:

Human: — Boycotts, boycott bans, boycott ban boycotts, ban boycott bans...
Human: — How’s a human supposed to shop these days?
Rat: — As locally as possible?

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While boycotts can occasionally work, it requires really massive participation. Most of them don’t achieve anything more than keeping activists busy.

But «boycott bans» are a sillier idea yet. One can’t really prohibit people from looking at the labels and putting items back on the shelves; they can try to prohibit people from talking about boycotts, but that’s a non-starter for obvious reasons.

As for living more local to stay out of all this… Stone Bryson has some suggestions:

Living Local