#taxtherich #boycott #sustainableliving #cuttingexpenses #budgeting #financialfreedom
Have you ever wondered: everyone says tax the rich, but why not boycott instead? 💠It’s a question that many individuals grapple with as they navigate their personal finances and look for ways to make a positive impact on the world. In a society where consumerism is rampant and excessive spending is the norm, it’s essential to take a step back and consider what services you can 100% cut out to save money and reduce your carbon footprint. 🌿
In a world where the gap between the rich and the poor continues to widen, many are calling for higher taxes on the wealthy to redistribute wealth and promote economic equality. However, taking a different approach, boycotting certain services and products can also be a powerful way to send a message to corporations and hold them accountable for their actions. 💸
Why Boycott?
Boycotting is a form of protest that involves refusing to purchase or support companies that engage in unethical practices, such as exploiting workers, harming the environment, or evading taxes. By boycotting these companies, individuals can put pressure on them to change their behavior and align their practices with their values.
Services You Can Cut Out
1. Fast Fashion: Instead of buying cheap, trendy clothes that contribute to environmental pollution and unethical labor practices, opt for sustainable fashion brands or thrift shopping.
2. Single-Use Plastics: Switch to reusable alternatives like water bottles, grocery bags, and straws to reduce plastic waste and protect the planet.
3. Takeout and Delivery: Cook your meals at home to save money and reduce packaging waste from disposable containers and utensils.
4. Rideshare Apps: Use public transportation, bike, or walk whenever possible to reduce carbon emissions and minimize your environmental impact.
5. Disposable Beauty Products: Invest in refillable or package-free beauty products to reduce plastic waste and support sustainable brands.
By cutting out these services and making more conscious purchasing decisions, individuals can not only save money but also contribute to a more sustainable and ethical economy. 💡 It’s all about being intentional with your money and supporting companies that align with your values.
In conclusion, while taxing the rich may be one solution to addressing economic inequality, boycotting certain services and products can also be a powerful way to promote sustainable living and hold corporations accountable. By making small changes in your lifestyle and consumer habits, you can make a big impact on the world around you. 🌎 #boycottforchange #ethicalconsumerism
I’m trying to do that. I don’t buy anything from Nestle, Dole, Tesla and all the other fucking companies that are raping our world. Sure, I’m still on a fucking Mac writing this, so I’m a hypocrite, but small steps.
good luck in boycotting amazon web services, for example.Â
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These things don’t really work because if the offending product is successful to begin with, it means there’s a ton of demand and people just don’t have that much willpower and collective coordination.
IMO, the only time “voting with your wallet” is truly effective, is if you can *divest*. Buy one thing instead of another, and try to promote others doing the same. Stores and warehouses only have so much shelf space, and this sort of thing can snowball.
If there’s no alternative, you’re SOL.
People like using their products, that’s why they are billionaires. Apple, Amazon, etc have made my life better. It doesn’t bother me that Tim Cook can buy a yacht because I have an iPhone.
Bad news for you, Elon’s #1 revenue stream is the US government. Tesla is heavily subsidized by EV incentives, and SpaceX is basically entirely government grants and contracts.
And Elon is leagues easier than, say, Jeff Bezos. Even if you avoid Amazon, Whole Foods, Twitch, the Washington Post, and everything else Amazon directly owns, over a third of the internet is hosted on AWS. Any time you’re doing anything online, they’re making money off of you. And if it’s not going to Amazon, it’s going to Google or Microsoft.
I don’t use twitter either, but as an individual the only thing you’re changing is how personally responsible you are, they’re still billionaires. If we want anything to change, or at least become more beneficial to the average person actions like taxes are needed. Like, look at the history of environmental issues in the U.S, you weren’t gonna get the rivers to stop burning by hoping everyone just woke up one day and stopped using resources, it was regulation that allowed change to happen.
Taxing the rich isn’t a punishment for being rich. It’s a way for society to reap some mutual benefit from their gains as well.
Scale and Reach: For a boycott to be effective, it needs to be adopted by a significant number of people. High-profile companies like Amazon and Tesla have vast customer bases, making it challenging to mobilize a boycott large enough to impact their financial bottom lines significantly
But let’s boycott anyway.
Are you a tax payer in USA? You have given Elon lots of money.
Boycotts work until they inconvenience you. The vast majority of people will not persist with a boycott if it were for example against Google.
Good luck advancing humanity lmao
People really don’t like thinking ahead don’t they? They want benefits without thinking about the consequences
Imagine boycotting billionaires but then remembering you need to tweet about it
This is prolly the least informed take I have seen here in a while.
A boycott only works when you have a large amount of people doing it, one person boycotting something is not going to sway a billion dollar company.
Y’all need to start living in real life
You’re giving Elon a bunch of money via your taxes, through payments and subsidies to his companies from the government.
I hate Amazon. I haven’t ordered anything from there in years.
Because it’s easier to ask the government to tax the rich than to exit society.
You indirectly pay both of those people even though you claim you’re boycotting them, solving nothing you want solved but sounding like you’re doing something. Elon and bezos love people like that.
The taxing the rich is about having the wealthy pay their fair share as they rely of a functioning society for their businesses to function and should share in the costs. Currently, they are taxed at a far lower rate than you and I. It’s not about hurting the company or the wealthy, it’s about making the costs of society more evenly distributed. Boycotts are about putting financial pressure on individual entities to pressure them to stop doing something that the boycotters find to be harmful like, for instance, boycotting Disney because they have voiced support for gay rights.
Ha, never happen.
Everyone I know in my circles are anti Amazon and Bezos, yaddayadda.
Yet they all use it constantly and hand wave away it being pointed out.
We are all headed for wherever corps want us to, because it’s just too slightly a little inconvenient to to stick to your values.
Because I enjoy some of the things they do
I liked Twitter since before Elon, now he’s made a shitshow out of it but I still kinda enjoy popping in and out
Got no choice but to see the ads if I wanna stay there, I can live without it but I enjoy it there so I can’t just cut it out
Fuck the rich for advancing civilization and increasing quality of life!
These things are not mutually exclusive(?) 🤨
People who own the economy are by and large the rich people. You will drive up cost for yourself by seeking alternatives with less wealthy management and therefore effectively be paying more tax.
How about we just tax the rich?
Look up the companies Blackrock and Vanguard.
And how they own majority shares of pretty much any brand/company/corporation you can think of.
Good luck trying to boycott the rich when they own everything. Even the politicians we vote for.
To boycott Tesla you’d need to stop paying taxes because that’s where a lot of their income comes from apparently (EV car subsidies from governments)
This is why we need a wealth tax.
What a braindead take.
A boycott literally doesn’t mean anything if you’re the only one doing it. It can’t even really be called a boycott if it’s not an organized action undertaken by a significant group of people.
Boycotts are fucking useless
Might as well go sign a change.org petition while you’re at it.Â
Actual tangible legislation makes significantly more sense than the thoughts and prayers methodology.Â
Bezos can be supported just solely off of the companies that use Amazon. Boycotts won’t hurt anyone but the consumer. Even if we all stopped, makes no difference. I try not to use Amazon, but if I must, it isn’t doing a whole lot
Because sometimes I need to buy shit I can’t find anywhere else, at least not at a decent price. It’s that simple.
Like it or not, these services make money because they work.