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		ClumsyPilot on April 8, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Everything advertised on social media is overprice... my understanding is that his example referred to consumers boycotting a business. I could not find a successful example. When a business gets replaced by a conpetitor, that's a diffetent mechanism

Clubber on April 8, 2023 [–]

Ah ok. Yes, I remember it companies changing their behavior due to boycotts in the 80s and 90s but not since. I suspect companies are too big and too global and have too good PR.

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