This post is somewhat inspired by a recent post in this same community called “Is anyone else having trouble giving up Reddit due to content?”
I imagine “Reddit” will be a common answer. (And it’s one of my answers.)
Another of my answers is “Hasbro.” First Wizards of the Coast (a Hasbro subsidiary) tried to revoke an irrevokable license and screw over basically all 3rd-party publishers of D&D content, then they sent literal mercinaries to threaten one of their customers over an order mixup that wasn’t even the customer’s fault. D&D: Honor Among Thieves and the latest Transformers look really good, but those are within the scope of my boycott, so I won’t be seeing those any time soon.
Third, Microsoft. (Apple too, but then I’ve never bought any Apple devices in my life, so it hardly qualifies as a boycott.) Just because of their penchant for using devices I own against me in every way they can imagine. And for really predatory business practices.
One boycott that I’ve ended was a boycott of Nintendo. I was pissed that they started marketing The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild (though it didn’t have a name at the time) before the WiiU came out, prompting me to be an early adopter of the WiiU, and then when they actually released BotW, they dual-released it on WiiU and Switch. I slightly eased my boycott when the unpatchable Fusee Gilee vulnerability for the first batch of Switches was discovered. I wanted to get one of the ones I could hack and run homebrew on before they came out with a model that lacked the vulnerability.
Fast fashion companies
I buy on Amazon only if I got some gift card (because im broke af and those are free money) but never with the fast shipment
Fast foods, Starbucks and similar
Delivery companies like Uber eats or Glovo
Meat
I don’t buy not-reusable products (like toothbrushes, razors, cotton) with a few exceptions, where I can I buy the eco or tech versions
Meat?!
Yes. I don’t boycott it myself, because I fucking love meat, but we need to finda way to make it more sustainable and less cruel to animals. (Not the murdering part, of course, but how we treat them beforehand.)
I fully understand why somebody boycotts it.
Yeah, that would be awesome, but it would be against the principles of capitalism- profit over sustainability, so probably it won’t happen soon.
Yep! You have to actually boycott it if you want anything to change.
I wonder if meat eaters think vegetarians don’t like meat? I loved eating meat, I hanker for burgers and steaks as much as the next man. I grew up on a farm, I’m not some bleeding heart. But I figured I gotta put my money where my mouth is, I couldnt say I was an environmentalist and not do the one biggest thing an individual can.
Never met a vegetarian?
Not really, no.
Yeah I don’t know if it counts as a boycott, I’m vegetarian but I don’t buy meat for our family also, my husband eat meat only when someone gift him (we are in a rural area so it happens)
Why Glovo?
Because they treat their riders like shit (not only Glovo, every delivery company) and they also take a big cut from the shops, so if I want to order some pizza for example I call directly the pizza guy from the pizzeria or the supermarket delivery But if you absolutely need to use a delivery service at least give a nice tip to the rider, unfortunately in my country tips are uncommon, very few people give it and usually is just some coins
Are you speaking from experience? What do you consider a decent tip and do they actually go to the riders?
Yes I was a rider for a brief period, your pay is calculated on the time and distance of your delivery but when you meet the client they can give you cash as a tip, you don’t have to declare it so Glovo wouldn’t even knew about it
Just a few euros are fine, only one time a woman gave me 5€, people here don’t use to tip but if they do they give you just the spare change from their pockets
Always feel bad as I soldem have cash to tip and depend on the in app tip feature. Guess it’s not too much effort to have cash reserves if it’s as bad for riders as you say.