Nesta wrote:BEWAREARTEMIS wrote:Nesta wrote:
Maybe we should boycott and speak up about the injustices, vote and use all your political power? A lot of rich and powerful people are rich and therefore powerful because they sell fx. products that the masses want to buy. They obv. also is based on unethical practices and non-transparency -- things will just stay the same if no one wants to say that something they do is wrong. Injustice thrives in darkness.
It's easy to say that we could boycott and speak up, but money buys people. I mean, at least in my country, most of the people who voted for the actual president here, they recieve money and privileges for voting for them, and for defending them, even when the government fucks up.
It is possible to stop buying certain products that you believe are the cause of rich people getting richer; but we should not forget that every single business sectors are also controlled by rich people. We're talking about necessary sectors such as the food industry, for example.
Trying to boycott only a few products does *something*, but it's not making them get less rich. They will push up the prices of products that we need in order to make us pay for not buying other products.
It's totally okay and necessary to speak up, but when the majority of the population is already too busy to listen (Because people need to have a house, food, education etc... and the only way to cover those necessities is by working) it's difficult.
That is corruption. It's an injustice already. (idk where you live )
You clearly don't boycott stuff you
need. You can buy from a company you can afford but don't support the values of (or change to more ethical companies if you can afford it) and still demand that company to do better.
The rich won't get their fortune removed but you can help prevent them from getting a crazy much richer. All companies are at the hands of profit, and that comes down to if their product is being bought or not. Like you can't have environmental justice without social justice, which generally just means we have a long way to go and a lot of battles to win on little time.
Ofc. it's difficult. It's basically uprooting a global system that's been exploiting people in favor of the few for hundreds of years.
But start somewhere with what you can, and then do what you can base on your privileges, that's really all anyone can ask of someone else. If that means boycott, speaking up, voting, signing petitions, donating, lifestyle changes etc. that's up to the person because there's not only one way to do things. However, some have proven more successful than others and one of them is social pressure.
I think it's like personally more important to do what you can and have hope than to do nothing because you feel overpowered.
It is an injustice but we can not really risk ourselves to call them out. We, the ones who are tired of our current government (My government is, ironically, from the left) because they lie and are getting tons of people dying because of the coronavirus, or poverty (or both), get called fascists. And you know, that adjective is one of the most harmful ones because it automatically invalidates your reasonings, even if they're correct. 
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