Boycott TNT: opposition whitelist [Nov. 8]
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Given the recent corruption carried out by TNT, the idea of boycotting their companies has been broached, and deemed a useful idea by a number of opposition representatives. To this end, an opposition (and government, which are ironically currently unsubsidized) corporation whitelist shall be compiled. If you feel you should be on the list, comment here; if you are determined to be unfunded by TNT skulduggery, you will be added. Whitelisting is available to any company foreign or domestic who wishes to demonstrate their non-affiliation with TNT.
Listed eThai companies have been verified as being unrelated to TNT; listed foreign companies have been verified as unrelated to TNT to the satisfaction of the boycotting community. If at all possible, only work for or buy from verified non-TNT companies:
Foo😛
CHARMIN ULTRA Q2
Closed Foods Q2 Q2
Crunch LV Q2
Food For Fun Q3
Government Food Q2
Sabai Foods Q1
TRP Food Q1
Gifts:
Chataya's Gifts Q1
Closed Gifts Q2 Q2
Government Gifts Q1
Houses:
Closed Houses Q1
Dragonstone Homes Q2
Government Houses Q1
TRP House Q2
Urist's Mountainhomes Q2
Weapons:
Cheap Inc Q3
Closed Weapons Q2 Q2
Valyrian Steel Q3
Moving:
Closed Moving Q1
Government Moving Q1
Raven Wings Travel Q2
Shyuang Shiang Stationary Q1
Defense:
Cyberdyne Systems Q2
Hospitals:
None yet (eep!)
Grain:
Eat, Sleep & Play Grain Q2 (eDutch)
Glass Garden Grain Q1
Vortex Grains Q1
Woo😛
Buy Thai Wood Q1
Organic Wood Thailand Q2
Weirwood Lumber Q1
Iron:
Andal's Iron Q1
Oil, Diamonds:
None yet (eep!)
Comments
IF you don't mind, i already stated that my firm has nothing to do with tnt, in the last article...
You really think this changes anything ? the population always ll buy from the company that has the best price and work for who pays the best salary.
In each article you forget some honest company, then it is automatically included in the "blacklist", you are the government now for god sake, the damage in the image of the company is not little. Its more than obvious something like this won't affect in noway tnt's business, if they did everything that you guys said, they even need to keep the companies running ...
Other thing, its obvious that the general population and a lot of congressmen does not read articles in general, we saw it clearly in elections and in recent votes in Congress.
You are in government for almost a week and every day someone still creates an article about rockman, TNT, etc ...
It's time to act, what we have seen so far are plans and more plans, laws being proposed by the governing party and after some time, the government itself creates an article asking the congress to vote No.
c'mon.
I sell Q3 food, and I can't keep up with the price of the blacklisted company. So I sell for far more, but I still sell about 10-15 food per day. The whitelist do work.
I make my money by exporting to Spain, I get more money there even with 99% importtax.
i sell wood and every 2 days i have to put more in the market, so the blacklist do not work. And ealb been a member of the goverment i think this blacklist can and must be reported.
the only thing tht work is that user calchas sending PM to every user that enter mine companies, so the worker ask me higher wage to work for me, and also investment-SO, you say that this work, but you are one hiring TNT members.
Boycotting is a time honored practice in both free market economies and democracies which is inline with the spirit of the game. I mean we have a built in boycott in regardings to trade restrictions with other nations.
While not everyone will follow the list, it is something that reminds everyone that the actions of the past have not been corrected and that there is still issues that need to be addressed.
I remain in favor of the white list
Sorry about that Pirat. Added.
@Splash:
>In each article you forget some honest company, then
>it is automatically included in the "blacklist", you
>are the government now for god sake, the damage in
>the image of the company is not little.
Make up your mind. Is the boycott meaningless and having no effect (in which case being temporarily unlisted is harmless), or is it a dire, viciously effective thing?
>if they did everything that you guys said, they even
>need to keep the companies running
They have plenty of stolen baht with which to run their companies. I'm not worried about them going bankrupt. If they want to return said ill-gotten gains to the treasury, we can talk.
>laws being proposed by the governing party and after
>some time, the government itself creates an article
>asking the congress to vote No.
If it's bad policy, I'm going to decry it no matter who proposes it. I'm not a partisan hypocrite, thank you very much. And if I propose bad policy, I want it to be shouted down, not uncritically accepted on the basis of the person who proposed it or their party affiliation.
@Antonio
>i sell wood and every 2 days i have to put more in
>the market, so the blacklist do not work.
Sure, 'cause there's not 100% adherence to the boycott. But the key question is, do you sell as much as you would without it? Does it help your competitors avoid being driven out of buiness by your company with its ill-gotten funding?
>And ealb been a member of the goverment i think this
>blacklist can and must be reported.
Good luck with that. If you didn't get me banned for this when you tried before, I don't see how me being a technically unofficial adviser/assistant to the elected President is going to make a difference. Also: ePakistan.
As Guy said, boycotting is a time-honored form of consumer activism, and it's not incompatible with a free marketplace in any way.
@Ealb
The original idea was creat a list of honest companies and with that force TNTs companies to repair their mistakes or eventually break. Ths list is prejudicial when u forget some companies and useless because the simple fact of TNTs companies are functioning normally. Say they are active only because of the episode of the hospital is not see the reality.
About the congress policy, i thought you would act as a bloc, at least that is what you suggested in the campaign. Now i see i was wrong about it, its almost the same thing we had before, everyone proposes anything, and later while the vote is open ppl discusses about it, for me this is lack of command.
"About the congress policy, i thought you would act as a bloc, at least that is what you suggested in the campaign. Now i see i was wrong about it, its almost the same thing we had before, everyone proposes anything, and later while the vote is open ppl discusses about it, this is at least lack of command."
This is pretty difficult to implement, as I feel every one is trying to make a mark for themselves, or be a leader. We had our tax proposals listed in an article by calchas, but they were ignored and people do their own thing.
I would like congressmen before they make a proposal to create an article asking for thoughts and questions on their packages before wasting a proposal that may get shot down because there is no explanation for it.
Whether or not people will actually take the time to do this is highly suspect though.
@Splash:
>The original idea was creat a list of honest companies
>and with that force TNTs companies to repair their
>mistakes or eventually break.
That was one idea of it. The other was to attempt to promote businesses that are not propped up by the stolen baht because it's difficult for an unsubsidized company to compete with a company that can stay in business despite pay higher wages and offering lower prices than them. As Investment-SO pointed out, in this respect it's working.
>Ths list is prejudicial when u forget some companies
They get added upon request. It's not prejudicial in that respect, but imperfectly maintained.
>and useless because the simple fact of TNTs companies are
>functioning normally. Say they are active only because of
>the episode of the hospital is not see the reality.
Again, the point was not to break them and drive them to the sea. We can't. The boycott won't be 100%, and even if it was they have their loot reserves. It's to reduce the further support they get, and to attempt to lessen their ability to distort the economy and/or drive the competition out of business due to the patently unfair advantage the Hospital episode (plus prior underwriting) afforded them. The boycott will be working so long as TNT companies don't dominate the eThai economy. It doesn't fail simply because they don't.
Oops, missed this.
@Antonio:
>and also investment-SO, you say that this work, but
>you are one hiring TNT members.
Uh... mind going and actually reading the article before trying to comment on what is or is not being called for?
I am also tired of proposals with no discussion by the proposer. I am tempted to vote "No" on each one just for the sake of doing so, but alas I might give in if it really makes sense to me.
I am seeing a good thing in eThai. Yes, it is disorganized and chaotic, but I am seeing other voices struggling to raise through. This is an important step, now we need to mold that activity. Change is hard.
I have a question, are you sure that closed companies have nothing to do with the lost money? Just today I bought Q1 tickets and Q2 gifts for 0.1 THB each, that is insane.
Seeking to be whiteliste😛 Buy Thai Wood
Done.
More generally, Antonio has returned 20k of the 21k he received from the Hospital incident. A further ~650฿ were honorably spent on the first Housing lottery. While it's possible he's gotten some funds transferred to him from the rest of the conspirators, and it's probably that he benefited from TNT largess during beta, I'd like to try to keep moving forward. To this effect, I propose adding the companies he manages to the whitelist.
Are there objections?
None
When the whitelist is next re-posted, it will reflect this decision.
Take down the whole white list now, the money is back to the country, no need to have it.
I say don't add Antonio, we should wait to see his true intentions!
There was alot more than 20k floating around out there Maximus.