“Heavily integrated into eBay” except it isnt any more.
Firstly the article is a year and a half old but although you can still use PayPal on eBay to say it is heavily integrated is bullshit. EBay started moving away from PayPal years ago and at this point have integrated their own systems linking to your bank account to take the place of what they used to use PayPal for.
kitnaht@lemmy.world 1 month ago
You literally cannot escape these companies, they own everything. Every brand of every everything, and you’ve got a large corporation in there somewhere in the shadows. That’s why they tell you to separate the art from the artist, because it’s been made impossible to boycott anything.
Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Really? Maybe true for things like Nestlé but I don’t use any of these services directly and it hasn’t been difficult.
CosmoNova@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Chances are you‘re using AWS by Amazon daily and likely use an Apple or Google phone too. I personally don‘t think Paypal is worse than those. It‘s sheer impossible to escape them without ditching the Internet altogether.
tja@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Nestlé is easy. I didn’t know the last time I bought something from them.
brickfrog@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
Disagree, haven’t touched Paypal or anything related to Paypal in years without issue.
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Eh, I don’t even care who owns PayPal, I avoid it because it’s annoying. Zelle is less annoying because it’s through my bank, but I honestly just want regular ACH.
FlowVoid@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I can easily avoid every company owned by PayPal.
ohshit604@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
I wish I could say the same, I use PayPal very frequently because my credit union doesn’t support debit-visa. With PayPal I can make payments with my bank online rather than use my cc.
Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
And use what? Mastercard? Visa? Your local bank institute?
All are deep into shit of gambling our money (financial speculation) for profit.
RisingSwell@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
I work in a servo/convenience store and about 3/4 of our drink fridges (all 10 or so doors worth) are the same 4 brands. Probably most of the store is covered under like 7 brands.
Coke, Pepsi, Schweppes, Nestle, Unilever and there goes almost everything edible and drinkable that isn’t fresh.
kitnaht@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Now here’s the scrubber of this all – If you REALLY want to be serious – Go to a farmers market.
Oh wait, almost every fucking farmer is a Trump supporter…
Snapz@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Who are “they” and who says that that is valid advice?
“Separate the artist…” is fairly accepted by any decent people I know as a way for selfish people to forgive themselves the burden of minor personal sacrifices related to their own consumer activities. The long form is literally, “Yes, Michael Jackson did horrible things to that little boy’s butthole, Woody Allen molested his daughter and married his adopted child and Bill Cosby drugged and raped women for decades, but let’s go buy their movie/album!” - you likely wouldn’t say the long form through, would you? You would hide and obfuscate behind, “sepatate the artist…” So you don’t have to say the bad things out loud.
Nobody with any integrity buys into “separate the artist…”
Also, to your point about this post, again it’s a similarly lazy way to forgive yourself the burden of trying to stay aware of these things and making little changes to how you vote with your wallet. You can absolutely do something like go shop at Costco this week instead of target - as one performatively eliminated diversity programs at their company while one preserved them as a stand. That’s where your opinion falls apart because yes, you can likely find something to hate Costco as well (because they are all garbage companies, but there are shades, they aren’t all equal. You have to participate to function, but you can do the slightest amount of work to shop more consciously. But that is the work you are trying to forgive yourself of.
The point isn’t perfection, but to do enough for this week and try again next week. Before you know it, you’re shopping more consciously wherever you go.
kitnaht@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Separate the Art from the Artist is accepted by SANE people, who don’t have time to milk tirades so that they can play victim on the internet so that strangers think they are virtuous.
stringere@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
I just finished removing all my payment methods from paypal and have to wait for a transaction to complete before I can delete the account entirely. Took less than 15 minutes.