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?

  • davel [he/him]
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    9525 days ago

    ACAB: All Corporations Are Bastards. Corporations are not your friends. Brands aren’t your friends.

    • @Lumberjacked@lemm.eeOP
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      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.

      • @barneypiccolo@lemm.ee
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        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.

        • @Analog@lemmy.ml
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          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?

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              You cant run a candidate who supports a far right wing genocide from the left and expect to win. Its really that simple. It’ll probably be that simple next time as well.

              What we need is Russian and israeli influence kept out of the US government with no exceptions. Zionist influence on the dems is why Harris lost, not some ‘voters dont understand that voting for evil is just necesssary’ like you pretend. Stop telling the voters they need to be ok with war crimes. Thats cowardly BS. I’ll never be OK with murder and you shouldnt ever be either.

              • Cowbee [he/they]
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                Russia and Israel do not control the US Empire. Both have a minor fraction of the power and wealth of the US, it is not that easy to influence US policy. The US’s relations with other countries are dominated by the US.

                The US props up Israel not because the US is controlled by Israel, but because Israel secures the US’s interests in the Middle East via massive terror campaigns.

      • @Grapho@lemmy.ml
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        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.

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      125 days ago

      I second this app. Really saved me a few times at the grocer.

      • @eldavi@lemmy.ml
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        325 days ago

        agreed, but only for now.

        if you read further on in this post, it’ll appear that their ultimate goal is to give brands the opportunity to clean any ghoulish reputation w money.

        • TacoButtPlug
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          125 days ago

          … can there not be one single good intention ever?! ffffffff

            • TacoButtPlug
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              125 days ago

              Are you seriously following me from a Nigerian article where I was shocked the US didn’t fuck their government up?

              Boy, you are fucking SAD.

    • Wigglet
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      Is there a way to add brands i want to avoid that aren’t on their list? I live in Aotearoa so I’m not sure if the list will have everything included

    • @lemel@lemmy.ml
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      Clicking around, it seems like everything is on the boycott list. The reasons are also so bad. For example, Mars Inc is banned for working together with Israeli academic institutions to further foodtech innovations. Bullshit like this is why Republicans are able to link together antisemitism and reasonably critiquing the actions of Netanyahu.

      • Mars directly investing in Israeli startups and working with the university of genocide is a pretty good reason to boycott Mars

        The app simply puts every company which invests money into Israel on the boycott list.

  • @usrtrv@sh.itjust.works
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    You can always go for smaller/niche companies. System76 and Wooting come to mind for keyboards.

    You have to do research and pay a premium. But you’re way more likely supporting a business that cares about its employees.

    In general consume less. And when you do need to make bigger purchases, do your research.

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        Yep, Dutch with manufacturing in Taiwan. So not super relevant to this thread.

        System 76 is US based including keyboard manufacturing. They’re a small company that gives a lot back to the open source community.

  • John
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    I don’t really believe in ethical consumption, but Penzys spices are awesome! They’re such troll too, I love it!

  • Lanske
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    Patagonia is a good outdoors brand from the US

  • @deathbird@mander.xyz
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    If there’s a place that you just can’t stomach to shop because of how they treat their employees then I highly recommend you do not shop there. I was avoiding Walmart before avoiding Walmart was cool.

    However…

    Boycotts only really work when organized, towards an end goal. What was Walmart doing before, what is it doing now, what do we want it to do, and who’s coordinating? That’s how you change corporate policy through boycott.

    If certain DEI policies are important enough to you to boycott when a company removes them then that’s fine. I guess it’s also worth asking what it is about any given program that makes it good enough for not, which companies should or shouldn’t have it, why, and all that.

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    725 days ago

    I’m not 100% sure, but I think HEB hasn’t done anything yet to kowtow to the current admin’s policies.

    • @MrEff@lemmy.world
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      I miss HEB. family owned and private. Thus why they get away with treating their employees so well, paying them well, and supporting their communities all while also being the largest private employer in the state of Texas. That company is a great example of how a company can both grow to a large size and not be evil. If they ever go public you know all of its charm will instantly get cut in the name of shareholder value.

    • @Lumberjacked@lemm.eeOP
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      Yeah. That’s my local grocery store. It sounds like they treat their employees well and do a lot in the community. And tortillas.

  • @x00z@lemmy.world
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    The only one that comes directly to mind is Valve.

    Besides that I’m not going to follow this narrative too much of finding “the good ones”.

  • Piranha Phish
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    I’m not sure if it’s still true, but I seem to recall SC Johnson having profits as the lowest of their corporate objectives with higher ones being things like improving people’s lives and bringing value to the world.

    Granted, it’s all just text, and times change, but I’d be curious to know if there’s any truth to it, especially today.