It’s a start. Just boycotting for a week, while a small drop, serves two purposes. First (assuming it registers), it’s a warning shot to the powers that be saying, “We are asking politely that you pick our side. We will get less polite.” Second, it gets people who would otherwise not resist more comfortable with it. Just as with evil, if one can go from A to B then B to C because C is not much more than B, the same incremental approach can be used for pro-social behaviors, too. In other words, not buying from Amazon for a week makes it easier to talk to friends about resisting, which makes it easier to go to a march, which makes it easier to…so on and so forth.
That said, I doubt that this will have much of an effect on Amazon or the other powers that be. If it registers, it will be a small blip. With continued action, that blip will grow.
It’s a start. Just boycotting for a week, while a small drop, serves two purposes. First (assuming it registers), it’s a warning shot to the powers that be saying, “We are asking politely that you pick our side. We will get less polite.” Second, it gets people who would otherwise not resist more comfortable with it. Just as with evil, if one can go from A to B then B to C because C is not much more than B, the same incremental approach can be used for pro-social behaviors, too. In other words, not buying from Amazon for a week makes it easier to talk to friends about resisting, which makes it easier to go to a march, which makes it easier to…so on and so forth.
That said, I doubt that this will have much of an effect on Amazon or the other powers that be. If it registers, it will be a small blip. With continued action, that blip will grow.