I get the boycotts for Target, Walmart, and Amazon for rolling back their DEI programs and bowing to Trump. What companies are treating employees fair or standing up for human decency? Seems like Costco gets brought up?

Most things I need I can get from my local grocery store which seems pretty non evil but where do you go if you need like a new keyboard?

  • Lumberjacked@lemm.eeOP
    38·
    19 hours ago

    I used to not vote because all politicians are evil. Someone pointed out that if everyone picks the lesser of two evils then things are going to get less evil. I’ve voted every opportunity since.

    Corporations are just legal structure organizing people together to do something. The soup kitchen, local artisan, person cutting hair out of their house, they all set up an LLC to operate under. They didn’t instantly become evil.

    But if I need to buy a blender, plywood, or underwear (my shopping list this weekend), I’m going to have to buy it from a corporation. If I could buy it from a less evil corp then hopefully I make things less evil.

    • Sickos [they/them, it/its]@hexbear.netEnglish
      1·
      2 hours ago

      In the prosecution of its purposes, the Slave Power has obtained the control of both the great political parties. Their recent nominations were made to serve its interests, to secure its supremacy, and especially to promote the extension of Slavery.

      …

      I hear the old political saw, that “we must take the least of two evils.” My friend from Ohio [Mr. Giddings] has already riddled this excuse, so that I might well leave it untouched; but I cannot forbear a brief observation. It is admitted, then, that Cass and Taylor both are evils. For myself, if two evils are presented to me, I will take neither. There are occasions of political difference, I admit, when it may become expedient to vote for a candidate who does not completely represent our sentiments. There are matters legitimately within the range of expediency and compromise. The Tariff and the Currency are of this character. If a candidate differs from me on these more or less, I may yet vote for him. But the question before the country is of another character. This will not admit of compromise. It is not within the domain of expediency. To be wrong on this is to be wholly wrong. It is not merely expedient for us to defend Freedom, when assailed, but our duty so to do, unreservedly, and careless of consequences.

      -Abolitionist Charles Sumner, encouraging a third party vote in the 1848 election

    • barneypiccolo@lemm.eeEnglish
      5·
      8 hours ago

      One way to fight the corporations is to stop worshipping at the altar of blind consumerism, and embrace the concept of “Reuse, Repair, Recycle.”

      Stop buying stuff you dont need. Keep using what you have, sell/buy used items, repair things, and if it cant be fixed or repurposed, then recycle it.

      Repairing things is a big one. Often repairs are remarkably easy. My wife has been ready to replace numerous appliances over the years, and I figured it was worth taking a shot at fixing it, if I can save a few hundred bucks, and successfully extended the life by years.

      Very satisfying, and it forces your wife to rethink her conclusion that you are an incompetent dolt.

    • multifariace@lemmy.world
      52·
      10 hours ago

      Voting for lesser evil just slows down the evil, it doesn’t reverse it. It’s still going in the wrong direction.

      • Analog@lemmy.mlEnglish
        31·
        8 hours ago

        If people would vote for good that’d be a choice. Consistently voting for “less evil” works towards that goal - having good candidates.

        If “more evil” candidates keep winning, what message does that send to candidates?

        • Lumberjacked@lemm.eeOP
          31·
          8 hours ago

          Yeah. Lots of people didn’t vote because we had two evils. The greater evil won…

    • Grapho@lemmy.ml
      23·
      7 hours ago

      pointed out that if everyone picks the lesser of two evils then things are going to get less evil

      That’s just absolutely not how it works even if you take it at face value. Both evils can be greater than the one rn, that has absolutely no bearing on which one is “lesser” among them.

      • Lumberjacked@lemm.eeOP
        1·
        12 hours ago

        Thank you. This sent me on a rabbit hole of differences between LLC and Corporations. LLC being a pass through protects the owners a little bit but passes through all the tax and some of the liability (hence Limited Liability). I remember reading something about how banks got significantly more risky with investments and predatorily with their practices when they started moving from partnerships to corporate structures.

        Maybe we should get rid of corporations and force all companies into a partnership or LLC structure. Less to hide behind.