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   Elizabeth Tai | 戴秀铃 🇲🇾 (liztai@hachyderm.io)'s status on Sunday, 24-Mar-2024 10:37:55 JST Elizabeth Tai | 戴秀铃 🇲🇾

   Stop boycotting Starbucks, McD’s, plead outlets’ current, former workers | FMT

   Yea I am taking a risk posting this as I really dont like the reply guys that will inevitably come, but this is why I still continue to go to these outlets.

   https://www.freemalaysiatoday.com/category/nation/2024/03/23/stop-boycotting-starbucks-mcds-plead-outlets-current-former-workers/

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     Elizabeth Tai | 戴秀铃 🇲🇾 (liztai@hachyderm.io)'s status on Sunday, 24-Mar-2024 13:51:28 JST Elizabeth Tai | 戴秀铃 🇲🇾

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     • n3wjack

     @n3wjack I didnt look deeply into the issues, but apparently https://www.bbc.com/news/business-68209085

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     n3wjack (n3wjack@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 24-Mar-2024 13:51:29 JST n3wjack

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     @liztai Are they Israeli companies? I figured they are both very US.

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     Elizabeth Tai | 戴秀铃 🇲🇾 (liztai@hachyderm.io)'s status on Sunday, 24-Mar-2024 16:10:52 JST Elizabeth Tai | 戴秀铃 🇲🇾

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     • Noam writes

     @noam thing is, the American context doesn't always apply in different countries。I just feel sad for the employees for being caught up in something that could be an American-centric movement.

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     Noam writes (noam@libranet.de)'s status on Sunday, 24-Mar-2024 16:10:54 JST Noam writes

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     @liztai An interesting one. Both companies have bad reps in leftist circles. Starbucks both for bad treatment of coffee growers and for using sheer corporate power to put local cafés out of business. McD for poor treatment of employees including antiunion stuff, and a big lawsuit against those who dared say it wasn't healthy food.

     So I don't feel sorry for the companies, or large corporations in general, when they lose money. The question of employees losing out is a difficult one, though. When corporations take over from local businesses, it's a complicated one.