I moved to uni last week (freshman) and the amount of times I have heard “were going to Starbucks” (there’s one on campus) is absurd. It’s like they’ve never heard of a boycott before.
Like I’m not even that invested with my boycotts, I’ll still go to target for a pair of pants and buy groceries from Walmart despite knowing they’re horrible companies. I am a chronic Monster Energy consumer and still use Instagram. I just block out the things that are easy to replace like Nestle products or using a different web browser & search engine (still on the fence about Linux).
But at least when I buy from a shitty company I feel guilty about it, they just have no comprehension that it might not be a good thing. I assume a LARGE part of that is because this is Florida, a red state where all of American history is just taught as “freedom!!” without really going into the details about what your rights are and what a union is. Hell, last WEEK I learned that the Mormons created an entire U.S. state (Utah).
Out of a show of hands for an icebreaker out of like ~50 people in a room only TWO had android phones, myself included. That was pretty crazy to me.
despite that though I found a group of friends and somehow all 3 of us have android phones and all of us have side loaded apps. Both of them aren’t in comp sci either so that was a fun surprise. Pretty funny how we just converged without knowing lol
A very involved answer to my very shallow, snarky comment. I just meant that Starbucks simply sucks and I hate the snooty arrogance of the place. It’s a shitty product wrapped in pretension and high prices. But the kids, they love their hot milkshakes.
Anyway, yeah it’s a shitty company but what isn’t these days. I have my own things I boycott (hilariously, any and all Google and Meta products/software) but at the end of the day you could not exist in modern society if you boycott every shitty company.
Well yeah, sure. But nobody should like Starbucks
I moved to uni last week (freshman) and the amount of times I have heard “were going to Starbucks” (there’s one on campus) is absurd. It’s like they’ve never heard of a boycott before.
Like I’m not even that invested with my boycotts, I’ll still go to target for a pair of pants and buy groceries from Walmart despite knowing they’re horrible companies. I am a chronic Monster Energy consumer and still use Instagram. I just block out the things that are easy to replace like Nestle products or using a different web browser & search engine (still on the fence about Linux).
But at least when I buy from a shitty company I feel guilty about it, they just have no comprehension that it might not be a good thing. I assume a LARGE part of that is because this is Florida, a red state where all of American history is just taught as “freedom!!” without really going into the details about what your rights are and what a union is. Hell, last WEEK I learned that the Mormons created an entire U.S. state (Utah).
Out of a show of hands for an icebreaker out of like ~50 people in a room only TWO had android phones, myself included. That was pretty crazy to me.
despite that though I found a group of friends and somehow all 3 of us have android phones and all of us have side loaded apps. Both of them aren’t in comp sci either so that was a fun surprise. Pretty funny how we just converged without knowing lol
A very involved answer to my very shallow, snarky comment. I just meant that Starbucks simply sucks and I hate the snooty arrogance of the place. It’s a shitty product wrapped in pretension and high prices. But the kids, they love their hot milkshakes.
Anyway, yeah it’s a shitty company but what isn’t these days. I have my own things I boycott (hilariously, any and all Google and Meta products/software) but at the end of the day you could not exist in modern society if you boycott every shitty company.
Regarding Utah, if Brigham Young had gotten his way, Utah would have been the State of Deseret and these were his proposed borders:
wbut the fuck