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When a "good" solution ultimately defangs or sedates workers with otherwise radical potential, then no, a "good" solution is inadequate and should be thrown out. Why is everyone bleating this empty aphorism all around lemmy? The simple fact is that the only way we are going to steer ourselves out of this devolution into fascism is with a hail mary: some sort of labor movement, a geopolitical shock, a massive strike, etc... And this (almost religious) faith in "good solutions" or half measures is not worth anything. It's copium. It's toxic positivity in the form of blind, religious hope.
What this expression refers to is a pervasive false equivalence: the idea that anything that isn't perfect isn't worth bothering with, or that doing something small somehow hampers a greater task (even if when it actually contributes to that greater task). It is a statement against apathy and binary thinking.
This comes up in politics and activism all the fucking time. Like "Why should I care about car emissions when freight ships produce more emissions than all the cars in the world?" The answer is simple: because you can. Do what you can, even if it's small. That doesn't mean forgetting about the big polluters.
If anybody is avoiding Amazon as an alternative to those things, then I agree that they need a kick in the pants. But I doubt there's anyone out there thinking to themselves "I don't need to take part in the revolution because I bought my cat food at CVS instead of Amazon".