There do exist so called "activist shareholders". Some banks and pension funds nowadays, large investment parties, also now advertise their own avoidance of investments in weapons industry, or their investment options in green energy, that sorta thing.
But, here is almost the exact same problem as what ethical slaveholders meant towards the abolishment of slavery. A small group of powerful but at least seemingly ethical humans end up serving as an argument for capitalism.
Many of these people end up being surrounded by greedy people that push them into soul-destroying decisions.
Some modern protests also focus on getting organizations to deinvest their money from the unethical banks and funds.
Activist shareholders need to be made to realize that there are better things to bet their money on, like a union of countermovements that work against the corporate power, with a bias toward the controversial ones (for spectacle and popular support ofc)
Is he right, Zig Forums?
I can tell just by looking at the guy that he's making fun of commies too.
He's too dumb to realise that the Starbucks meme is totally invalid.
Hit the nail on the head.
not him but starbucks sucks, if you use it you have no right to complain about capitalism.
Not sure if burger liberals can be said to even pretend to hate capitalism.
some do but they say "we need a mix of capitalism and socialism" because they have no idea what socialism actually is.
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if you use an iphone you are by default bourgeois
nokia is the proletariat's brand
it's one thing if you use a smartphone for its utility but if you're an actual retard who buys the 1000$ phone as soon as it comes out (and own anything without a headphone jack) you should kill yourself.
no I mean it, things would be better if these people killed themselves.
That’s funny, I’ve seen a lot of black proles use them. I’m not sure why people care so much about policing the kind of use-values people consume when Marx critiqued this “critique” of working-class consumerism in vol one
A lot of workers buy things things like expensive clothes, phones, shoes etc. because those are the kind of luxuries they actually can afford. Very few luxury brands could probably stay in business without prole consumption.
I’ve literally seen guys that probably own million-dollar houses walking around in t-shirts, shorts and cheap new balances. Zizek is right that Capitalism is a religious force and that capitalists are in many respects motivated by this rather than mere self-gratification.
Warren Buffet eats off the dollar menu at McD’s every day for breakfast.