This could explain a lot

[NikFu S.]

Speaking of the Koch brothers...

you hear much about the supposed boycott of Koch-owned paper products that was supposed to go down? I was all for it until I realized I didn't buy any of that stuff anyway, but one argument I heard against it was that the boycotting of goods like this hurts the lower end of the job market, and I agree, it does.
That's the price you pay for working for a company that does whatever it does to have people rallying against it.

But less on that point and more to the general point I had just thought of, borrowing from the earlier argument that someone had made on motor companies failing resulting in too much job loss...


[here it comes]

where is the outcry from these same people when jobs are lost in a more legitimate manner of enterprising?

I'm talking about things like Netflix and downloadable/streamable movies and TV series. Has not this recent trend all but laid waste to companies like Blockbuster and their lesser-known competitors? Where are the bailouts for them?

I would never argue for a Blockbuster bailout but when I notice the blatant hypocrisy of people to "worry" about jobs that are "stolen" from innocent people through politically-inspired movements yet remain silent when something arguably great (from an immediate consumer perspective) merely overtakes something obsolete... I just can not keep a firm grasp on that person's credibility as it begins to trickle out of my hands.