I’m an Australian who votes Greens and Labor, but I appreciate you sharing how poor your intuition is.

Yeah, this seems like an especially pedantic thing to “um actually” over, and that’s coming from a recovering pedant. This isn’t a medical text, it’s been common lay usage to refer to the whole deal as a vagina for longer than I’ve been alive.

Even, apparently, the ones who never cared about the franchise before Rowling did her best to blow up her legacy.

From experience elsewhere (not Reddit) that linked downvotes to hiding responses, it can unfortunately also be abused to silence minority voices and minority support. It sounds good on paper, but functional downvotes really don’t work well in practice.

The graphic speaks directly against your point. You said we could avoid most unethical consumption but we choose not to. The graphic, as well as my response, outlines how high level consolidation means that in many cases we can’t avoid unethical consumption, and have no choice about it.

China’s economy is a socialist market economy. It borrows some elements of capitalism, but it’s not capitalism. That restructuring from a command economy started in 1978. As this chart shows, the 90s didn’t meaningfully impact the rate of reduction of poverty that began in 1980.

Marx was wrong about the end of capitalism, but he was also viewing the system in its juvenile form, with the long-term effects of mercantilism still very much present. “Late-stage capitalism” is a much later concept than Marx, originating in the early 20th century as countries struggled with war economies and in…

I believe people boycotting the game draws a line of acceptability, increases communication and awareness around trans issues, introduces people that were not previously aware to the problems involved, and encourages people to take action in support of trans causes. There’s no question that the boycott is stimulating…

Exactly. I believe there is a lot of unavoidable unethical consumption, but video games and fantasy authors ain’t it.

Therefore, boycotting Hogwarts Legacy is a waste of time and serves only to make you feel good about yourself.

I hope I’ve been clear so far in saying that bullying and hate are unacceptable. Militant support of a cause has always been fraught with risk and danger, frequently doing more harm than good, and it’s never been something I believe in personally.

I don’t believe most people can avoid most of the unethical consumption they engage in, on the grounds that the scope of companies that act unethically is incredibly broad. I’m sure you’ve seen diagrams like this one (outdated, but the trend is towards more consolidation, not less) that represents a vast proportion of…

I don’t believe the examples are misleading, but I do believe you’re trying to find reasons to dismiss them because they run counter to your belief about boycott efficacy.

I think there’s a clear enough difference between being unable to avoid unethical consumption and being able to avoid it but doing it anyway. The scope of megacorporations makes it difficult to even see all the connections, let alone avoid them; likewise for the state of global manufacturing.

If people want to selectively buy or boycott things, thats fine

Obviously that ‘three’ was supposed to say ‘two’. Numbers are hard today.

Do you apply this reasoning to companies too? Keep buying from Nike despite the child labour because you can “separate their shoes from their business practices”? What about Nestle’s colossal rainforest damage and water theft? Or Activision Blizzard’s sexual abuses?

It feels like an eternity since I put Mars First Logistics on my wishlist. Just checked, I added it in June 2021 - coming up on three years ago. Here’s hoping it comes out as planned this year.

I thought it already was in the current MSFS. I must have been thinking of a third party version.

You appealed to the feelings of the beneficiaries of Donaldson’s approach, presumably to imply that the people involved don’t have the same problem with it that people here are expressing. The analogy outlines that the beneficiaries of an exploitative system are unlikely to hold rational or reliable opinions of that…