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poderiu β Iraq War Profiteers II
Published: 2010-05-24 00:33:06 +0000 UTC; Views: 1119; Favourites: 12; Downloads: 20
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Iraq war profiteers... it's called capitalism,and i love it.
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good for you, you are not iraqi.
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it seems you see iraqis as inferior people. It must be the effects of brainwatching.
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thats your fuckin problem you assume.
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if you are stupid, that is not my problem, is yours and the people who know you.
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give it a break... you're a fuckin loser. the only good thing to come out of Switzerland was ABBA
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Heh, I'm glad to say that only one company here ever profited off me, and that's Microsoft.
I should switch to Linux.
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Good thing, that I don't buy these brands anyway. Why bother buying that expensive stuff, if there are much, much cheaper no-name-products that have even a better qualityβ¦
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Pal you can not boycott the whole industry, not just because you will be having much less "anything" to eat, see, wear and whatever, but also remember that A LOT LOT LOT of people that has NOTHING to do with the wars and war crimes work there and they are just common people trying to live, there are alternatives to boycotting.
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Any person (and my understanding is workers are persons too) with just a bit of conciousness, should find by any means the way to work for a company that DOES NOT profits from war (same goes for ecology predation, child labor, etc).
If they canΒ΄t find it (among the thousands or millions of companies any country has), then why not starting their own companies?.
Life is not just about "trying to live", but to live it in full, and to be aware and responsible for what we do (both in an active and a passive way).
Excellent piece poderiu... thatΒ΄s a sure fav and a sure boycot for a number of corporations I didnΒ΄t know of.
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I know and i understand, but the world is larger than what you might think, not everybody can (and i say can, not will) get a job on a company that does not profits from human misery, even those with the opportunity to do so can not take it sometimes because it is not remunerative enough.
We all must take responsibility and think before acting, however a lot of people have already acted before thinking, and a lot more do not care much about that, so even tough you are right (and i think like that too), it is not good to boycott, wrong have been made in a very large scale and the actions to correct it are going to take more time that we might like, and also will have to happen more smoothly than we might think they should :S
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Boycott is one of the most efficient and less violent ways to make corporations change a policy, my friend.
ItΒ΄s been a method proven over time and history is just full of examples to certify it, but the only thing that makes them work is the combined action of concious people and unfortunatelly thereΒ΄s not too much of that around.
As for someone who having a choice decides to work with war-profitting companies instead of doing it somewhere else, or even starting up a whole new business, I think thereΒ΄s no need to comment on the human value of that who decides to sell his/her concious for a few (or a lot of) bucks.
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I know, but the problem is that many people do not care, and many more are not selling their conciousness for the money itself.
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true but still, im not gonna pay for a movie that makes millions, or eat nestle because its a 'better brand', or watch tvshit or anything. buy the stuff you can at a fairtradeshop or anything, or no-brand-coke. may not be big but i feel better by it
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Coke and Pepsi and "other" cola drinks are all made by common working class people, the same with any other products.....
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yeh i know, but they dont get the money i give to buy the coke.
i respect the workers, not the brand
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I understand that, i trust me that i understand why you think like this, but the truth is that the workers get their money from the brand (any brand), and boycotting a brand damages the workers, not the bosses.
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You're going to chose to drink one product or another, be cola, tea , juice or whatever. And that choice is going to have a positive effect for the workers and bosses connected to product you chose to buy, and - I suppose you could say - a negative effect (or at least neutral) for all the brands that you didn't buy.
Most people base their criteria on price or taste. But if someone wants to actively chose to support good business practices by buying their drinks (or whatever else) from a responsible company, then that's their choice. They aren't hurting the working class, because every beverage company employees working class people.
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Regarding of why you buy a product (i personally base my choices on taste AND price), it is very good and healthy for the economy to enforce your right of choice, and also it is your right to choose anything based on your own thoughts and ideas.
What i am saying is that boycotting a private company will not make it stop a wrong policy by itself, because a private company does not owns itself to the people as a government does, you can however protests and make various kinds and amounts of demonstrations to show them what do you think of their policies, that has also a great impact on many people and that is the kind of pressure that they can not tolerate, but a boycott is like shooting a robber in the head from 10 miles away with a silenced sniper rifle in the middle of the night when he was just walking on the street :S
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yeah, but i dont think that cocacola or so will go bankrupt cause i dont buy a coke of em. these companies only go down by fraud and stuff, their own mistakes...
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Well first of all, of course they will not go bankrupt, they will just pay lower salaries, make workers work more hours for the same money or less and fire a lot of them
Second, boycott is not the way with a private enterprise, because they have no "bounds" to the people as a government has.
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yeh, true, still i kinda feel weird when i buy a coca-cola or pepsi when the same stuff is there, but cheapier and no-branded...
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