Asklemmy @lemmy.ml Lumberjacked @lemm.ee 23h ago

What brands should we NOT boycott?

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?

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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!
NetBSD, Signal Foundation, other FOSS orgs
Dropout TV
Patagonia is a good outdoors brand from the US
ACAB: All Corporations Are Bastards. Corporations are not your friends. Brands aren’t your friends.
- 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.
  
  Voting for lesser evil just slows down the evil, it doesn't reverse it. It's still going in the wrong direction.
- Repeal of Citizens United and change that.
  
  All Corporations Are Bastards, in a four hundred year unbroken chain going all the way back to the English East India Company and Dutch East India Company, and even before those.
Open source orgs
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.
- Wooting is Dutch?
  
  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.
i use the nothanks app on my phone to scan the bar codes and it tells me if it's okay to buy or if i should boycott, along w why
- I found the thing you mentioned a good idea so I googled the app to find out how they decided who should or should not be boycotted. I landed their homepage and it said they offered digital marketing solutions.
  
  I'd love to use something like that if community driven but sounds like an important conflict of interest.
  
  that's good to know that they're doing the same thing as adblock plus did.
  
  there are other apps that do the same thing and i'll be trying them now; thanks for the heads up.
  
  edit: maybe this one?
- 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
  
  nothanks does
- I second this app. Really saved me a few times at the grocer.
  
  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.
Gamestop?
Tillamook cheese
- But then you have to eat Tillamook cheese... I has no idea cheese could be so bland before I moved to the NW USA. And orange, for some reason.
- Dang if I didn’t read something about the cow treatment at the milk farms they source from. Was sad to hear.
I'm not 100% sure, but I think HEB hasn't done anything yet to kowtow to the current admin's policies.
- 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.
- Yeah. That’s my local grocery store. It sounds like they treat their employees well and do a lot in the community. And tortillas.
NAACP has a list of companies committed to DEI: https://naacp.org/campaigns/black-consumer-advisory
- Apple and Ben and Jerry's right at the top lmfao
  
  Ben & Jerry’s is actually cool though, no? Although they’re a capitalistic enterprise in the full sense, they had the spine to put a stand against Gaza genocide
- Apple Ben and Jerry's Costco Delta Airlines ELF Beauty
  
  Why was this downvoted? I just listed the companies on NAACP website so you didn’t have to open link.
  
  Delta is the only U.S.-based mainline carrier where flight attendants, fleet service, and mechanics are not represented by a union
  
  Tim Apple attended Trump’s ~~coronation~~ inauguration along with Altman, Bezos, Musk, Pichai, and Zuckerberg. https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-inauguration-ceo-guests-bezos-zuckerberg-musk-2025-1
Used computer store for keyboard, or Craigslist or Market place

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