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> Consumers are individual people with no comparable organizational power. Nobody said consumers have to be individuals, consumers can organize just like low
by camus2 10y ago
> Consumers are individual people with no comparable organizational power.
Nobody said consumers have to be individuals, consumers can organize just like low wage workers should. They have just been sold individualism thanks to centuries of propaganda. Rich people have no problem organizing, that's what corporations are, but somehow when people at the bottom of the ladder do, it is a bad thing? This is puritan morals, "rich are blessed with wealth, poor people only deserve contempt" and it certainly defines America.
- quadrangle 10y agoWell, I think we agree completely. Citizens can organize, but powerful organizations of rich people have worked hard to keep regular citizens divided and helpless, and they spread the propaganda of "consumer choice" to try to insist that any situation can be blamed on the consumers themselves. I agree that massive organized consumer groups or institutions can make a difference.