KittenKoder
Senior Member
Boycotts are a serious problem, they are part of the reason why our American made products suck. This is what happens:
1. People choose not to by the higher quality version simply because of morals.
2. The inferior company makes a fortune off that, then raises it's prices for better profits instead of improving the product they know that people will buy the crap version anyway.
3. The boycotted company simply leaves the US and sells in another country or area.
It doesn't do anything but take away a lot of quality products. If it's a product you can't live without, boycotts only hurt the economy as a whole, if it's a product you can live without then you don't buy a cheaper version, that may help a little but not much. If you make laws to stop such practices the result is the same. Basically, the only way to stop such practices is to start your own company, make a better product without such practices, and let people know yours is better, all for the same cost. But that's almost impossible now because the regulations prevent start up companies.
Who said the superior products are the ones always being boycotted? You make no sense.
The US doesn't make a car as good as a VW or a Mercedes, but plenty of people buy them anyway, so my preferring what I like isn't a boycott.
And who do you think makes it hard for the smaller guy to get bigger? The bigger guys. Learn it. Know it. They pay for the regulations that advance their goals. Corporate welfare/favoritism through regulation legislation.
Duh, that's always been one of my points. My other point is, no matter what you boycott, the products you buy in place are never any better in some way. People don't research what they buy most of the time. One industry that impacted me hard I did research. Found out that the American products suck so much now simply because they abused the regulations to get the European and Asian versions out priced. They then used the phony "it's better for the environment" label to jack up the price of their own product. It gets even more insidious the more I learned about the industry, far more. But as I started looking into other products I noticed the same pattern. Using government regulation as a weapon against competition, also conning consumers into boycotts to boost their profits, there are a million examples in the US, but few people see them because few people actually research anything they purchase, they just purchase based on an advertisement they see on TV or a label on the product.
