Everyone knows that somewhere in the middle east is having conflict now. Then some folks in this country initiated a boycott on Israel and US products. Yeah, war is not cool. In fact, Christianity promotes peace. So will boycotting certain country's products help?
One thing they don't realize.....this is globalization era. How to totally avoid one particular country's products without affecting others? If you say don't go to KFC and McD (not in the boycott list I guess), our people will be jobless. Our chicken poultry will have economy slow down. Our farmers will earn less. Then can the market provide ample job opportunities for them? You see, this is called supply chain.
OK, if you can't totally avoid supporting service industry of that targeted boycott country, let's try this: don't buy their physical products. Say Coke (they forgot to include Pepsi in the list). Don't they know, we don't import Coke from US? It's produced locally under the license. See, more people jobless again. Plant will close down. Bottle and can supplier close shop. Petroleum and tin revenue will be reduced. You get the point?
This total boycott won't help much. It will only give an insignificant impact.
Note: This thought was expressed in Starbucks cafe which is owned by a Malaysian company, while consuming local made cake and tea imported from Asia region, served by local Chinese barista, using TNB power supply, whose origin of the equipments and machinery for producing the electricity are not known.
One thing they don't realize.....this is globalization era. How to totally avoid one particular country's products without affecting others? If you say don't go to KFC and McD (not in the boycott list I guess), our people will be jobless. Our chicken poultry will have economy slow down. Our farmers will earn less. Then can the market provide ample job opportunities for them? You see, this is called supply chain.
OK, if you can't totally avoid supporting service industry of that targeted boycott country, let's try this: don't buy their physical products. Say Coke (they forgot to include Pepsi in the list). Don't they know, we don't import Coke from US? It's produced locally under the license. See, more people jobless again. Plant will close down. Bottle and can supplier close shop. Petroleum and tin revenue will be reduced. You get the point?
This total boycott won't help much. It will only give an insignificant impact.
Note: This thought was expressed in Starbucks cafe which is owned by a Malaysian company, while consuming local made cake and tea imported from Asia region, served by local Chinese barista, using TNB power supply, whose origin of the equipments and machinery for producing the electricity are not known.
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