You can successfully boycott your local deli where the owner hangs Nazi flags. You really can't boycott FB and Amazon, not in any large-scale meaningful way. It would simply be making a personal choice about what you can and can't tolerate. I don't eat at Chick-fil-A for this reason.

Unfortunately we've allowed megacorps to overrun every aspect of American life to the point where a large-scale boycott is essentially impossible. The answer is to legislate these billionaires, but the American people said "no."

Not at all what I'm talking about lol

I argued back that being poor doesn't give anyone the right to steal labor from *other poor people* but 2011 tumblr wasn't ready for that

I think COVID wiped people's memories. Trump pardoned so many egregious criminals as long as he could profit off them that it almost became a joke. He never needed an excuse! Norms and laws don't enter his mind when he makes decisions. Acting like Biden just gave him the green light is insane.

But do you want to fight people that crazy? I don't think so.

I don't see it lasting long once hopeful self publishers see the results. I spoke at length with a woman who used a vanity press for her first novel and before they were even done with the process, she was asking for her book rights back bc their work was so subpar.

I mean, that's kind of what I'm getting at. This is asking a ton of money for a service that exists for free/is on programs you already own. Vanity presses are BS in general, but at least there are people on the other end, justifying(ish, to some) the cost.

lol I'm glad you knew I was joking