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I'm saying that people like boycotts more than they like actually doing anything. I think it's a power fantasy, personally.
That said, I don't expect anything to happen in the next 10 or 15 years given who's currently in charge, so may as well.
I still don't get what you're actually proposing, though. Companies run on money. If enough people are willing to say "no, I don't want to see that show enough" then there is the possibility of change.
If you're saying in an ideal world the government would do some antitrust...sure, as you said I'll check back in in a decade and see how that's going. For now I just don't give them my money.
Okay, I'm trying not to be needlessly irate because I'm not yelling at you so much as I am lamenting the current state of political advocacy.
My problem is that you are confused. If we have enough people to do this:
Then we have enough people to enact regulations. These aren't different strategies, it's the same strategy. You need coordinated public willpower either way. You need something tangible to actually direct the currents of the ocean.
People, today, broadly, don't seem to believe that they can wield the government to their advantage at all. They don't even see it as an option. They don't have any ambition.
I'm not saying that you should spend money on a morally bankrupt company. I am saying that this won't accomplish anything. It isn't a solution. Certainly not if you don't believe the regulations option is even possible.
I still have hope, you know. But, it's dependent on people remembering the union, bar-brawl fistfights their grandpa used to get into.
Well 40% of my country thinks a pedophile nepo baby failed businessman should be in charge and the majority of states are trying to kill the concept of democracy and the majority of my congress is in favor of further dismantling the government and my supreme court thinks the pedo is a god-emperor who can shoot someone in the face and have no negative consequences and the majority of the state apparatus is working to violate the constitution on a daily basis.
So...no, I don't think we do have enough people in my country who want to fix this.
Your username says petrol so maybe you do, but that's not the case in my country.
I live in the US. This American apathy and resentment of political power, this vaguely libertarian vote-with-your-wallet thing, is specifically what I'm criticizing. It's a kind of political advocacy that abstains from the reigns of power. It's also, like, a step above changing their profile picture.
I'm aware that everything is broken. But, it was less broken in the past. It'll be more broken in the future. I look around, though, and I see so little interest in reclaiming the power we've lost. Nobody wants to hold the reigns. Zohran does. He's trying something.
I worry that a lot of Americans, if not most of them, desperately want politics to go back to being something they don't have to think about; which isn't good—that's not a good thing. You don't win a game of chess by skipping your turn every time it comes up.