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i do want to point out how hard it is to even find out about the views of these people, if you just look up the names of the projects and aren't specifically looking for this information there's no way you'll find anything about it
even looking up the name of David Heinemeier Hansson, the more vocally bad of these, i had to go to the 5th link to find anything even vaguely mentioning his views
Isn't that a good thing?
I don't know about you, but I don't really care what the views of the owners of a business are. It only becomes a problem if they make those views plain.
I very much care about the view of business owners are; it's how I decide to where my "vote" goes when I "vote with my wallet" as I've frequently told to do by Capitalism supporters.
Voting with your wallet has nothing to do with politics, but price, quality, and service.
Then why did people freak out over serving gay people?
Idk, but choosing to not serve people is a good reason to not buy from them, even if you're not impacted, because they could choose to not serve you or your friends. That said, of the owner doesn't support gay maffkagy but serves and hires gay people, that's a different thing entirely.
That's a lot of bending over the point of money has always been political.
In am abstract sense, sure. But boycotting businesses over something their owner or executive said doesn't send a very clear message.
It's not about sending a message. It's about cutting off funds to hate.
Voting is wielding political power, whether it is with your wallet or anything else.
It doesn't have to be, and that's my point.
Using your wallet doesn't have to be political.
Voting is, by definition, political. It is a common part of several different methods of resolving coordination problems (i.e. politics).
No,, voting is only political if it's part of a political process. Everyone in a group voting what kind of pizza to order isn't political, and it can merely be informative (e.g. the person ordering the pizza could pick something else). Voting is only political when it involves government.
"Voting with your wallet" a metaphor. It just means changing your shopping habits so a company loses revenue, usually due to a recent change. Maybe it's a policy you don't like, or maybe it's a drop in quality or something. It's usually not a political act, though it can occasionally impact political policy (e.g. if the boycott is in response to a political change that involves the target company).
Yes, it literally is. That's what politics is: how we control group behavior.
No, politics is specifically concerned with government. Any other use is generally a metaphor for government, like "office politics." Voting on what food to get for dinner isn't "politics," neither is boycotting a store for treating their employees poorly.
"A methodology and activities associated with running [...] an organization" -- https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/politics
Any organizational decision is politics, including but not limited to a group of people organizing a pizza meal.
You skipped the part that said "government." If you read the rest of the definitions, they all have to do with politics and power, even if they're not governments themselves. So think political parties, PACs, etc. Some non-government entities can have enough power to be comparable to that, such as large companies where maneuvering feels like maneuvering in a government.
Here are other definitions:
All of them are principally about government, or things closely resembling a government. That doesn't leave room for a small laptop manufacturer or small FOSS project, because they don't resemble governments. The same goes for patronizing a business or not, that's not a political act, because we're not dealing with the types of power associated with politics.