recently i've tried to only buy products from brands that existed before 2016 so there's any hope at all that there's a hobbiest forum talking about them instead of Just A Discord
a huge threat to pretty much everything that makes life worth it
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in reply to @NireBryce's post:
in reply to @ireneista's post:
is it still a community if every aspect of it is monetized and exploited and could be discarded and destroyed at the whim of a PowerPoint slide from someone just trying to justify unsustainable infinite growth
... or is that too gatekeepy?
mm we're not going to judge what other people care about
but we do think that the concerns you mention are very serious and should be opposed
one of the most important bits of personal criticism that another activist directed at us a while back was that we don't get to call something a "community" if the people in it have not done the work to be invested in each other
it's much harder to do that work in corporate settings, because the profit incentive means that the dispute-resolution structures prioritize silencing dissent, but dissent is necessary as part of finding lasting solutions to social problems
but it's certainly still possible. it is ALWAYS possible.
that is where i was going with it, but that is a much clearer definition of the issue!
my social interest in politics is how awful corporations are so i always go there first 🙃
right so like we're an anarchist, so we feel it's our obligation to root-cause these problems so that we don't inadvertently reproduce oppression within the new context we seek to create
corporate behavior is deeply entwined with a lot of this stuff, for sure, and really important to criticize, but we try hard not to STOP there
fully agree!
i am always looking to learn more and gain a broader understanding beyond economic systems