Oh I agree with you, and I also agree with Pratai. I personally am actively trying to push myself toward pretty much everything I listed specifically to show the people around me that it can be done and without too much difficulty.
I have also watched, and experienced first hand that telling people they’re bad even by inference for not doing these things puts people into defensive mode and they just stop listening. They feel like they have to defend themselves, so that’s what they do instead. In fact, it makes it more difficult to convince them later because their first impression of the idea is associated with an attack on their identity.
In sales, you do not ever tell the customer they’re stupid, that they’re morally wrong, that they are impoverished idiots and that’s why they should buy your product even if that is all true and the product would literally change all that. You tell them about the problems that they have, and you build it up, and then you give them one singular line that suggests that your product could fix those problems but not everyone can have this product(because it requires work on their part, or it only works within a specific ecosystem).
Instead of “If you have a Facebook account, you support this piece of shit”, maybe “Wow, looks like Facebook and its management are doing some immoral stuff, and wouldn’t you know it they’ve been doing stuff like this for a while. I know that you are an upright moral person, so here are some alternatives to consider. Me and everyone else who are seeing this go down are using this specific alternative. The catch is that it is decentralized its up to us to make it the way we want it, are you free Saturday? Neat, I’ll swing by in the afternoon and help you get set up”
Oh I agree with you, and I also agree with Pratai. I personally am actively trying to push myself toward pretty much everything I listed specifically to show the people around me that it can be done and without too much difficulty.
I have also watched, and experienced first hand that telling people they’re bad even by inference for not doing these things puts people into defensive mode and they just stop listening. They feel like they have to defend themselves, so that’s what they do instead. In fact, it makes it more difficult to convince them later because their first impression of the idea is associated with an attack on their identity.
In sales, you do not ever tell the customer they’re stupid, that they’re morally wrong, that they are impoverished idiots and that’s why they should buy your product even if that is all true and the product would literally change all that. You tell them about the problems that they have, and you build it up, and then you give them one singular line that suggests that your product could fix those problems but not everyone can have this product(because it requires work on their part, or it only works within a specific ecosystem).
Instead of “If you have a Facebook account, you support this piece of shit”, maybe “Wow, looks like Facebook and its management are doing some immoral stuff, and wouldn’t you know it they’ve been doing stuff like this for a while. I know that you are an upright moral person, so here are some alternatives to consider. Me and everyone else who are seeing this go down are using this specific alternative. The catch is that it is decentralized its up to us to make it the way we want it, are you free Saturday? Neat, I’ll swing by in the afternoon and help you get set up”