🦋 Benjamin West - 🐒🌻 @infosec.exchange A curious human being focused on creative disruption and making change for the better.
A "seasoned" campaigner and community organizer. An anxious Canadian 🇨🇦 adjusting to living with a #disability (inner ear issues/ sometimes vertigo).
These days i can be found working remotely, exploring decentralized decision making, coordinating a grants program and spending time with my dogs.
Writing a book called The Monkey Flower Experiment, it's about a group of people trapped together at an off grid university on the side of a mountain after a terrible storm. It could be described as a #SolarPunk Lord of the Flies. Stay tuned.
This is now my primary account.
Interests: #ClimateSolutions, #FOSS, #governance, #strategy, #urbanism, #PublicEngagement, #privacy, #cryptography, #interoperability, #infoSec, #CyberSecurity, #OSINT, #decentralization, #biomimicry, #StreetArt, #transRights, #IndigenousRights, #humanRights, #juggling, #jokes and #memes.
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@stabby_cicada its still collective action at the end of the day if you hope to have an impact.
I would suggest strategic boycotts can have an impact at times. Generally voting with your dollars is most useful when supporting local alternatives where your individual dollars really have a big impact.
The danger with individual responsibility campaigns is they tend to shift focus away from those with the real power (as has been stated here by others).
Take a look at the history of the Make America Beautiful campaign to see how corporations have intentionally pushed this narrative to shift focus off of them.