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Ask HN: How do you quantify success of a boycott?

A few questions about boycotts.

1: What is success? 2: Why do they often fail 3: Do we really want the end result or even know what that should be?

Some food for thought.

Maybe instead of outright failure of a given company we want it to act with moral integrity.

Given that boycotts typically fail as a result of convenience how do we start to take back a democracy in a capitalistic society? It would seem to me that voting with your $ is the only way, but getting the mob to agree with the moral choice is the challenge.

I'm thinking more then ever given the state of things we really should show that the public can influence choices of the elite.

What am I missing?

2 points eat-darich 1 year ago 1 comments

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