Summary
A Harris Poll revealed that 20% of Americans support boycotting companies aligning with Trump’s agenda, including major brands like Amazon, Target, and Tesla.
Boycotts are driven by dissatisfaction with companies rolling back diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives, with 46% citing DEI rollbacks as a reason.
Support for boycotts is stronger among younger, non-white, and Democratic demographics. Some boycotts, like the “Latino Freeze Movement” and religiously motivated Target boycotts, are coordinated within communities.
Companies cite legal pressures for DEI changes, while critics view it as a moral compromise.
I try to spend consciously and it’s fucking depressing. The list of companies I avoid grows and grows and grows. If it isn’t some antisocial billionaires throwing their weight around trying to get more money or change the world to better fit their vision with complete and utter disregard for normal people, it’s pressure from the millionaires to increase share value so they can try to get their turn.
The need to increase profit, or more recently increase the rate of growth (the line that shows how fast the line goes up has been discovered so now that line needs to go up), has ruined everything.
If the company isn’t completely, directly captured by these antisocial forces they are indirectly captured by the environment that is dominated by those same forces. Monopolies, anticompetitive business practices, hostile takeovers, vulture capitalists, ladder pulling, or just people strapped for cash that just buy whatever is cheaper regardless of the human cost involved.
Now everyone else is being squeezed and struggle to live a decent life or find dignity. Those responsible for this environment just use those struggling people. They’ll redirect them to squeezing each other - scams, pyramid schemes, MLMs. They’ll keep us fighting amongst ourselves - blame immigrants, minorities, DEI.
Now “AI” is continuing to get hyped and pushed even if it sucks at its job and demands insane amount of energy. It’s way cheaper than people, or at least the cost is easier to pass on to others and it might be even cheaper eventually… so everyone is investing in it.
From an American perspective, it’s just so much and I feel like things are only getting worse and fast.
It’s the worst. Avoiding Pepsi, Coke, Nestlé seems impossible sometimes. I had to give up the masala chips that I like because it turns out they’re a Pepsi front. Why are they allowed to just buy up everything?
Because the only real law of human society is the Golden Rule.
i.e. He who holds the gold can make the rules.
You will need another 80%.
right? I read this and my first thought was “only 20?!”
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Misleading headline.
See AbnormalHumanBeing@lemmy.abnormalbeings.space post that show even among Republicans it’s 29%.20% will do it permanently, meaning even if Democrats win by next election, they will continue to boycott companies the support Trump now.
Yeah, was gonna say, these numbers sound cooked AF
Just really proves that the majority of Americans approve of Trump and his actions. Only 20% see what’s going on as an issue.
It’s a start.
I was worried that the Americans would just keep sitting on their hands like so many did during the last election.
“The data suggests this is a miscalculation,” she said. “When 20% of Americans are permanently changing their consumption habits and nearly a third of boycotters say they’ll hold out indefinitely, convenience may no longer be the decisive factor companies think it is.”
So that’s about 6% who plan to boycott for as long as needed. 94% don’t. It’s a start, but it sounds like convenience is still a pretty decisive factor for Americans.
Edit: I may have misread the statistics and been too pessimistic.
How did you get from a third will do it for as long as it takes, to just 6%?
20% will do it permanently, meaning even if Democrats win by next election, they will continue to boycott companies that support Trump now.They read it as a third of 20% (with 20% of all Americans boycotting), meaning 6% of all Americans.
OK that’s an understandable mistake, but not what the article states according to the quotes that have been posted.
Obviously “permanent” 20% (no end) is longer than “Indefinitely” 33% (meaning it’s to be decided, possibly ending when no longer necessary).
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