It is so bizarre to me that some people seem to believe that by buying a phone whose operating system is made by Google and whose hardware is assembled in a nameless factory in China instead of buying a phone whose operating system is made by Apple and whose hardware is assembled in a nameless factory in China, they are somehow sticking it to the corporate man.
Or that people who choose to buy iPhones are somehow dupes, while the canny android phone buyers are not being taken in, because the price is lower. I’ve got a bridge in Brooklyn I’d be glad to sell them, cheap.
Tell me you’ve been fooled by corporations without saying you’ve been fooled by corporations.
Yes, this is a #Subtoot .
@bhawthorne Right or wrong, I make almost no buying decisions with "sticking it to the man" as criteria. I'm not that privileged.
@mike I’d say the whole concept of purchasing to stick it to the man is absurd.
@bhawthorne But isn’t that what a boycott is? @mike @edgeoforever
@edgeoforever @AlliFlowers @mike Oh it’s pretty easy to untangle the corporate hydra. To a first order approximation, all of our money flows to the same global oligarchs:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wealthiest_families
@AlliFlowers @bhawthorne @mike yeah. They never do work. I stay away from things I don’t like, but I know that whatever I do like puts money in the pockets of bad men, possibly the same ones I tried to avoid. You can never untangle the corporate hydra.