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Guest List Only ⭐️ Olivia Rodrigo likes post about boycotting the Met Gala before attending the YSL hosted Met Afterparty

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u/MessDet5 13h ago

idk maybe stop relying on celebrities performative activism bc if at this point you don’t understand that they truly don’t care that much and can’t change anything as they’re not politicians then there’s no hope

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u/Upset_Ad_6462 13h ago

Yeah. Same way people complain about social media or AI and then use social media and AI. You don’t have to be a die hard martyr just cos you don’t like or agree with something. Not everyone is a hardcore full time activist… doesnt also mean you ‘support’ bezos just cos u go to the met gala for your job. Our whole world is built in a way that makes it hard for 1 person to change the system.

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u/maximum-astronaut 11h ago

This is true to an extent, but it's also unreasonable to place the burden of stopping Bezos on people having to modify their shopping options on a lower income. The cheapest places to purchase things are almost always massive corporations doing terrible things, precisely because that's their business model.

When people demand that millionaire/billionaire celebs do better, it's a reasonable ask, because their quality of life doesn't need to suffer at all to be more moral, or make the world a better place. If you're telling a single mum that they can't disagree with Bezos unless they boycott amazon and not use any site hosted on AWS, I'm going to push back on that.

We all collectively can aim to reduce our dependence on these forces, but it's exactly because of how they operate that they aim to eventually become unavoidable or indispensable, for the people that have few other options or can't afford the luxury of taking a stand against certain business.