PayPal owns brands like Venmo, Honey and is heavily integrated into eBay - if you're looking to stop giving your money to bad companies, take a second to search their subsidiary brands as well.
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Yeah, I copy pasted from the Internet. Anyone who actually cares can look it up. I just thought it was fun for effect.
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Coke isn't much better
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HFZ3cH1UAI
Gosh I'm jelly though, I'm in the UK and tap water used to be drinkable, but now it's more hydrocarbon than hydrogen dioxide these days. Joy of privatised utilities eh?
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Yes. But was talking about PayPal brands specifically. Let's not forget musk's involvement with the early days of PayPal. That's always been a turn off for me too.
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Nazis are fascists just like Trump. You're being told accurately my dude.
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PayPal was acquired by Ebay for 1.5 billion in stock. Group that benefitted from that transactionmost already included musk, thiel, etc. They are intrinsically tired together forever. You also see PayPal as an option for all transactions in eBay, the very recent addition of alternative options, after decades of socializing people on PayPal as the default option doesn't change much.
Imagine your side of this "argument" being the hill someone dies on... I sure hope you're a bot, because otherwise you seem a pretty sad, confused human
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So you're saying that the 1965-1970 Delano Grape Strike and subsequent 10-year supermarket grape boycotts were useless and didn't cause any real change? Or the Montgomery Bus Boycott?
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You mention that PayPal was bought by eBay (in 2002) but not that it was spun off again in 2015. They're separate companies. If anything, Venmo is a competitor of PayPal.
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Had to look up Delano, but I'm not surprised to find that it was apparently not a boycott, but a larger organized, ongoing labor conflict. I knew about Montgomery (which in itself is a crazy sign of cultural imperialism, because I have no business knowing that), and the same applies.
You can set up a genuine boycott of something as part of a larger set of organized actions, particularly in a local conflict. You can't rely on consumers worldwide spontaneously abandoning a global oligopoly as a way to enact any meaningful change. At most you'll get a PR response. At most.
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But the boycott is still an important part of the social movement, isn't it? Even if, as in the Delano Grape Strike, it takes a decade or more to force change, with plenty of activists disappearing, arrested, tortured, or killed.
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If anything, Venmo is a competitor of PayPal.
PayPal.. owns Venmo?
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Large corporate farmers maybe (you've provided no support to your claim). In my experience though (a decade in fine dining, with direct relationships to many market farmers) there are more small farmers without their heads up their asses. They understand how they are being fucked with water rights, climate change and no right to repair. While nobody is doing enough on these things currently, they recognize that trump is gasoline on the fire that disrupts their lives.
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Idk much aboabout it, but what about DecentraShop?
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It looks like it might be one of those blockchain-based marketplaces. I noticed there were a handful of those on AlternativesTo. I skipped em because I have no interest in supporting blockchain stuff.
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And use what? Mastercard? Visa? Your local bank institute?
All are deep into shit of gambling our money (financial speculation) for profit. -
I don't care if companies speculate or if they make a profit.
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If anything, Venmo is a competitor of PayPal
Yes, just like how Coke is a competitor to Diet Coke and Sprite.
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Correcting misinformation isn't defense of the entities involved. You can hate eBay (or any entity) and correct misinformation about them. There's no conflict there.
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AWS
You can choose a different service for your own hosting needs.
The same is true of PayPal. I've been banned for years (not sure why, maybe my account was compromised?), and it's never been an issue, I just pick a different payment method. I use Venmo occasionally, but Zelle also works for most uses, or I can bring cash or a check.
I don't think I've ever been in a situation where I only have a single payment option.
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Never saw a .coop before. Unfortunately chicken.coop is reserved
