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When has voting with your wallet ever actually changed something?

• barry-cotter 8y ago
  What are the biggest telecommunications companies in America now? In 1950? The AT&T name survives but the company using it now bought the original company. The American automobile market looks radically different now than it did in 1950 too. The newspaper classified ads economy has mostly been eaten by internet advertising. Creative destruction is part and parcel of capitalism.
  • lozenge 8y ago
    None is that is due to ethical consumerism (the idea you can vote with your wallet on a principle and it will actually make a difference). As far as I know, the last major time ethical consumerism made a difference was against South African apartheid. Which is a cause 10,000x more important than the hegemony of Disney. Smaller issues just don't get the traction.