The problem with “voting with your dollars” in a capitalist society is that, overwhelmingly, doing so doesn’t punish the people at the top, who are actually responsible for things. Consider all the vile companies currently firing people due to the pandemic:
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Boycotting them in the future won’t get the fired people their jobs back, and assuming the business is actually impacted, it won’t be the owner who loses out: it’ll be their workers who get shafted again, either with more paycuts or fewer positions.
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By design, the market doesn’t allow consumers to police owners; it only allows us to disadvantage workers, who invariably have little choice in who employs them and no say over corporate policy. The only possible top-down solutions are legislative, with real enforcement to work.
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Modern capitalism says owning a business is more of a right than a privilege, while simultaneously classing jobs and job protections as a privilege, not a right of the workers or the responsibility of owners. This has to change, or society will continue to toxify.
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