Boycotts, from the perspective of the organizations you’d want to hurt the most, look like a few ants throwing fists at an elephant. It probably doesn’t even know it’s happening, let alone suffering some kind of consequence.

Refusing to buy something from an evil corp is in its own way cowardly. It won’t accomplish anything meaningful but it feels good enough that it stops any actual useful action.

I don’t think us “normies” can be blamed either way though. Even for those who can afford alternatives, they may not be able to afford the loss in quality or convenience or whatever value they’re giving up. I’d love to not buy or use Apple, but I’d also like to keep my job.

Also consider who you’d even be hurting if everyone somehow did participate in a boycott. Apple’s sales plummet but they’ll never disappear, and so long as there’s any money coming in at all, the last to go would be at the top. So we’ve all just put hundreds of thousands of people out of jobs, and the rich, evil pieces of shit at the top haven’t really felt anything.

It is cowardice to convince yourself that a flawed idea would work and then to just dig in and try to convert as many as you can. These people won’t change until they’re forced to empathize.

What’re they missing that keeps them so disconnected from us? The one thing we can give the people who truly otherwise have it all? The thing that really separates us: fear. Fear of repercussions. They keep dancing away from lawsuits and convictions, mocking us with their unlimited freedom. All while imprisoning us for crimes dwarfed by their own.

All that’s left is violence. They dodge everything else ¯_(ツ)_/¯