Board members at major companies forcibly replaced by billionaire hedge funds - fascist groundwork or shock doctrine?

[Orrex]

27. So will you. The difference is that I don't fool myself about it.

Nor do I blame others for being inescapably stuck in their situations.

Which billionaire do you patronize for your internet, by the way? From which billionaire did you obtain your phone or computer or tablet? And did you buy a fair-trade locally-sourced free-range automobile, or did you buy it from a billionaire? How do you rationalize these self-exploitative practices while wagging your finger at others?

Perhaps I’ll live by your example and ride an eco-friendly alpaca 30 miles each way to spend $3 more to buy some mom&pop toilet paper rather than pay the Koch regime.

But here’s the punchline: even if you and I and everyone we know stop buying from these corporations, it won’t affect them in the slightest. Just like those silly calls to boycott Facebook or Walmart; it’s the theater of irrelevance. But at least in the meantime we get a heady dose of smugness, and isn’t that really the point?

Someone might now be tempted to cite WaPo’s loss of 200K+ subscribers, and that’s nice, but that’s a response to an egregious failure of responsibility at the top rather than a grassroots push from the bottom.