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Originally Posted by Still Growing  But if you target the Dollar store it would affect jobs, American importers and so on. If you target Walmart it would have an affect on those working at Walmart and also the shareholders. |
Yes, and if we could miraculously find a way to collapse those corporations, your government would not be apathetic, believe me. That's 90% of America's supply chains right there...
By the way, fill me in: how would an international boycott of these particular firms be even remotely possible, given that (most of) their demand and private investment stems from America itself?
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Originally Posted by Still Growing Also you are missing my point... You are speaking about American potentially boycotting Chinese made products due to China's gov't actions. I'm saying that if the same happened and Europe, for example, boycotted American products due to the US gov't actions that would be the same logic would it not? |
When I wrote "No, they're exactly the same in principle" in my last post I was answering that very question. Sorry if that was unclear.
Edit: Demand-side boycotts might be terribly inefficient (although strictly speaking not irrational). This cartoon is merely pointing out that many of these stupid morons running around snuffing out torches may indirectly be funding the Communist Party, or better yet the Chinese entrepreneurs operating from Lhasa! Come on, that's F_U_N_N_Y.
I mean, we could go on forever saying "well just look at the corresponding irony of x, y and z instead" but as long as you're not refuting the irony itself then you're just reinforcing my point.