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Exactly. Corporations can’t, or don’t, force people to buy and do a lot of the things they choose to do.
People don’t need straws, they also don’t need meat, or at least not nearly as much as the average person eats. If someone’s reading this, statistically they don’t need to drive nearly as much as they do, and they can walk or use public transit a lot more than they do. I’ve heard people from all over the world, no matter how good they publicly transit is, complain it’s not good enough and that’s why they drive a car, even though in a lot of those cases I know for a fact it’s good enough and plenty of people in similar situations use it.
And that’s not even to mention how quick some people are to throw China or India under the bus for their total pollution, while ignoring the per capita numbers, or how a lot of their pollution comes from manufacturing things that are consumed by people in Europe and the USA.
We choose to buy shit we don’t need, do choose things we don’t have to do, we actively choose to make the world a worse place, then talk about how it’s not our fault and it’s the companies who need to be stopped. But corporations are just people offering services to other people; you take one down and another will replace it; you make it illegal, and people will tear the government down and elect a new one. As long as people keep wanting the same things, then nothing changes.
Mfs be blaming the corporations when they are the ones using their money to tell the corporations what to do. Of you want corporations to stop destroying the environment, don’t buy products that were made via environmental destruction. Vote with your money, not with your memes.
Unless you go live in a forest and grow your own food, your money will always end up in the hands of one of a dozen or two people.
Pretending you can solve systemic problems with individual action is exactly the kind of lazy thinking you were taught to make sure you never threaten the system you’re nothing but a dispensable cog in.
You’re not as clever or edgy as you think you are, you are literally licking the boot that is standing on your neck and think it’s a treat.Unless you go live in a forest and grow your own food, your money will always end up in the hands of one of a dozen or two people.
So let’s keep buying shit we don’t need? Using the straw example: You don’t need straws. They give a minor increase in convenience, while making the world a worse place. We don’t need them, but we buy them in mass making the world a worse place, then when some try to get rid of them we kick and scream because “it’s the corporation’s fault!”.
You’re not as clever or edgy as you think you are, you are literally licking the boot that is standing on your neck and think it’s a treat.
Someone’s saying “don’t give money to corporations” and “let’s not interact with the system”, and you’re saying that and calling them lazy, all as an excuse to keep giving money to corporations. Look in the fucking mirror. Literally your entire comment is an excuse to participate in the system you claim need to have problems with. Take some damn responsibility, and stop saying you want things to change while not being whiling to change your way of life. The one who’s lazy, is the one sitting at home making excuses to keep mindlessly consuming and saying other people need to find solutions and stop feeding your addiction - which they should, but that still doesn’t change the fact you have an addiction.
I don’t feel like writing another whole comment about this, so I’ll just copy and paste something I wrote a while ago:
When people say it’s not “we” and it’s just a few people, or just companies, it always seems to me that they are - consciously or subconsciously - just making excuses for not having to actually do anything and hoping someone else will solve the problem for them. They want the problem to be solved, while not having to do anything or change their lifestyle.
There are some very obvious and clear examples of this; here’s two of them:
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Studies have shown most people are in favour of carbon taxes. But with carbon taxes, companies would just shift the extra cost onto the consumers by increasing prices. One thing affected by carbon tax, would be the price of gas itself. And when prices (especially gas prices) increase, that usually results in a lot of anger and protests. So why would any democratically elected politician ever implement a carbon tax? If they did, they would be voted out, and the next one to come in would just undo it.
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Another obvious example, is meat. We know one of the major protagonists in CO2 emissions is animal farming. Red meat especially is responsible for a huge source of those emissions. And yet most people don’t even wanna think about eating less meat, and they will still crack jokes about vegans and look at them sideways. And as for regulations regarding meat, the example from before still applies.
As you seem to be implying, what really needs to happen is a whole cultural shift. Trying to shift blame onto to a few people and hope they get the guillotine, won’t change anything as long as people keep demanding all the same things because then someone else will come in to fulfil that demand. Whether we like it or not, we have to accept that it’s the sum of all our actions that will determine the future, and our actions can influence other people’s actions; therefore, one way or another, we are all responsible.The fact that you’re choosing plastic straws (that consist of 0.003% of plastics in the ocean and are literally a life line for many disabled people) as your hill to die on, while whining that systemic change will never happen (because making it happen would demand too much effort from you) shows me just how not only wilfully ignorant and lazy you really are, but also how ableist, and how you care more about patting yourself on the back than actually doing anything productive.
But sure, keep licking that boot and blaming people who have no control over how things are run, I’m sure that’ll get you far.
The fact that you’re choosing plastic straws
It’s just one example, and in this case one out of 3 that I gave. It’s also what the main post is about. But clearly you’re also too lazy to read the whole thing, which is why in the end you are repeating something I’ve already addressed, and your whole comment is ad-hominem with not a single argument presented.
But sure thing, I’ll keep being “lazy” and “licking the boot” by actively making an effort to change my lifestyle, fight against the system and find alternatives, and trying to convince other people to do the same.
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