Frustrated Americans, spurred on by social media campaigns, have been quick to cut off their spending on big brands as a form of political protest in the Trump era.
That makes an employee walkout at the online home furnishing company Wayfair particularly precarious, as some of the company’s staff loudly objected to its involvement with the detention of migrant children near the United States’ southwestern border.
NYT
Stopping an iniquity
by going out on strike
is like that fabled Dutch boy
with a sponge to plug the dike.
Even boycotts seldom cause
a company to close;
if the product's trendy
people buy and hold their nose.
The only way to hit 'em hard
and make 'em close up fast
is get the White House riled up
so new tariffs will be passed.
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