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@keoni@mastodon.nz There's no tactic that works in isolation. A consumer boycott on its own can't bring down a large monopoly. Even if it grows very large, the company can easily defuse it by publicising a trivial concession (“Now available with 20% less asbestos in a fun green wrapper! We listen! Only twice the price of our regular product! Now show us which you're going to buy.”). You need a lot of other parts to the movement to educate people, look after them, build viable alternatives, maintain attention, assert legal power… even demonstrate a threat if you're ignored. Rosa needed Martin, and Bayard, and Malcolm.