I've been steaming for a while about how we've been sold a big pile of BS with the concept that we can vote with our dollars: save the earth by using reusable shopping bags and recycling at home; save labor by shopping American and buying Union; prevent animal cruelty by purchasing eggs that are "cage-free" (TW: animal harm). The fact is we can't save the world through retail, and they've laid massive guilt on us until with the belief we can. Fight for $15 -- as a tiny system fighting a goliath of a system -- has way more ability to fix things than we ever will as shoppers.

I shop from Amazon a lot -- disability, can't drive or carry, the internet's amazing -- and I know how they treat their warehouse workers. And I wish I weren't supporting Amazon, but honestly, my boycott of Amazon would mean bupkis, whereas my doing anything I can to help those warehouse workers organize or fight for better conditions or even have access to better jobs would be a more fruitful use of the same stress.