Newman's Own. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newman's_Own
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If there's a place that you just can't stomach to shop because of how they treat their employees then I highly recommend you do not shop there. I was avoiding Walmart before avoiding Walmart was cool.
However...
Boycotts only really work when organized, towards an end goal. What was Walmart doing before, what is it doing now, what do we want it to do, and who's coordinating? That's how you change corporate policy through boycott.
If certain DEI policies are important enough to you to boycott when a company removes them then that's fine. I guess it's also worth asking what it is about any given program that makes it good enough for not, which companies should or shouldn't have it, why, and all that.
If its publicly traded, you can bet it sucks.
If it's not publicly traded it can actually be worse, too. Like the other poster said, you need some kind of actual strategy to make a boycott worthwhile.
Bandcamp, because it is the best place for independent music and there is nothing close to it.
Steam, because they started with non-horrible DRM (compared to other options) and now they are one of the companies that help Linux succeed for gaming (Steam Deck is just a Linux computer with controllers attached, and Proton is awesome for running Windows games on Linux).
Steam, because they started with non-horrible DRM (compared to other options)
Au contraire, Steam was LOATHED back in the day, they were the first to force you to install a store just to play a single game.
For other games, you needed to enter a CD key on install (which keygens helped with) and then you needed the CD itself in the drive (which cracks helped with). Steam started the trend of online DRM in games, which was then adopted by others who made even more draconian offerings (I think for Spore you could only get 3 hardware IDs registered?)
I'm not sure if it's still true, but I seem to recall SC Johnson having profits as the lowest of their corporate objectives with higher ones being things like improving people's lives and bringing value to the world.
Granted, it's all just text, and times change, but I'd be curious to know if there's any truth to it, especially today.
You mean the fuckers who gave kids cancer with talcom powder and have done everything in their power to not pay damages?
Yeah. Fuck. That.
Nope. That's Johnson & Johnson. Different company.
Bruh if my company was named SC Johnson after what Johnson and Johnson has been up to Iβd change my company name to avoid what dumb asses like me just assumed.
I believe you mean Johnson & Johnson, which is a different company.
No idea about the morals of SC Johnson, I hadn't heard of them till now, but have used a product or 2.
I'd say Steam.
Only as long as Gabe Newell runs it. After that it will enshittify like any other company that needs to make profits.
Private equity is salivating over the idea of ~~running his carefully built brand into the ground~~maximizing value extraction from steam.
The current meta here is that things like brand loyalty and reputation are not really worth preserving, and are only as good as whatever short-term gains you can squeeze out of them.
Let's hope musket doesn't buy it.
King Arthur Flour!
Dr Bronners soap has specifically reaffirmed their DEI policies since Trump's reelection, and they have a 5-to-1 cap on the top-level exec's salaries compared to their lowest paid retirement-vested employees. They seem to walk the walk from what I've seen and read.
The only one that comes directly to mind is Valve.
Besides that I'm not going to follow this narrative too much of finding "the good ones".
I don't really believe in ethical consumption, but Penzys spices are awesome! They're such troll too, I love it!
NetBSD, Signal Foundation, other FOSS orgs
Costco
It should be noted that they are actively trying to bust their workers union so maybe boycott them when your local asks you to.
ACAB: All Corporations Are Bastards. Corporations are not your friends. Brands arenβt your friends.
Stop letting the perfect be the enemy of the good.
Yup. Everyone has to buy something. The point is to direct people to do that at places that are LES evil rather than giving in and saying "nothing matters I guess I'll just do whatever." Defeatism is collaboration.
I used to not vote because all politicians are evil. Someone pointed out that if everyone picks the lesser of two evils then things are going to get less evil. Iβve voted every opportunity since.
Corporations are just legal structure organizing people together to do something. The soup kitchen, local artisan, person cutting hair out of their house, they all set up an LLC to operate under. They didnβt instantly become evil.
But if I need to buy a blender, plywood, or underwear (my shopping list this weekend), Iβm going to have to buy it from a corporation. If I could buy it from a less evil corp then hopefully I make things less evil.
One way to fight the corporations is to stop worshipping at the altar of blind consumerism, and embrace the concept of "Reuse, Repair, Recycle."
Stop buying stuff you dont need. Keep using what you have, sell/buy used items, repair things, and if it cant be fixed or repurposed, then recycle it.
Repairing things is a big one. Often repairs are remarkably easy. My wife has been ready to replace numerous appliances over the years, and I figured it was worth taking a shot at fixing it, if I can save a few hundred bucks, and successfully extended the life by years.
Very satisfying, and it forces your wife to rethink her conclusion that you are an incompetent dolt.
Sorry. My underwear is beyond repair
lol. Intimates are poorly constructed, but we also ask a lot of them. In all seriousness though, I have repaired undies and bras and gotten another 6 months to a year out of them.
Voting for lesser evil just slows down the evil, it doesn't reverse it. It's still going in the wrong direction.
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Patagonia is a good outdoors brand from the US
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