this post was submitted on 04 Jul 2026
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A reminder of why we need to vote with our wallets, as these companies have rigged the system in their favour.

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[–] Tundra@sh.itjust.works 2 points 4 hours ago

If you are into investing, you can effectively avoid big tech by not buying any US large cap.

[–] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 1 points 5 hours ago

Me: Trump has projects?

Oh, those.

[–] NottaLottaOcelot@lemmy.ca 6 points 11 hours ago

It’s an investment - donate $1M, save $5M in tax. For them, it’s a no brainer business decision.

Massive companies exist to make money for themselves, and any virtue signalling they do on the side is solely done as advertising. Give your money to small businesses that deserve it and to the companies that employ people in your local community, not to places that will turf humans on their ass as quickly as technology allows it.

[–] Zephyr@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

For-profit businesses are for profit. It's kind of the whole point. Any and all behavior is an attempt to increase capital and decrease costs. What individuals can do is come together to decrease their profits namely through boycotting. If the drop in profits is great enough they will head in the new directions of increasing profits aka what the people want.

[–] explodicle@sh.itjust.works 2 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

That's it, I'm boycotting Lockheed Martin.

[–] Zephyr@sh.itjust.works 2 points 8 hours ago

You definitely can, at least any services and products that are public facing unless for some reason you work in government procurement and or logistics somewhere where you can deny them contracts.

[–] blarghly@lemmy.world 12 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Scotts Miracle-Gro

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[–] fireweed@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago

Yet another reason to avoid that garbage!

[–] Jack@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Isn't listing only the number of projects-donated-to pretty much useless; when the amount donated to 1, could be more than everything-else by everyone-else combined?

[–] Treczoks@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

"Trump Presidential Library" - about to contain a handful of coloring books. But gold-plated ones, of course. With golf motives.

[–] arin@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Fucking retard Trump bankrupts casinos, tech companies donate millions to the corrupt retard and the government loses billions in tax revenue. 🤷‍♂️ our country will get bankrupt in no time