Gripe: Being politically active is beneficial. Sure, you're not making the pie bigger, but the pie is arguably big enough already. In fact, working to slice the pie differently might have a greater effect on the median citizen than working to increase the size of the pie. The US has been making the pie a lot bigger but median wages haven't increased much.
It's pretty naive to say that '“changing the world” meant being a communist arsonist', when thousands of activists and organizers have a long, documented history of other methods.
While he's lambasting a caricature, it is a caricature that exists for a reason. For example, when is the last time anyone saw a street protest and took anything about it seriously?
Politics is mostly trench warfare and startups are cavalry raids.
To answer your ostensibly rhetorical question: after demonstrations in Houston, Whole Foods agreed to pull from their shelves foods produced through prison labor.
