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I might be getting old, but more and more I see “vote with your XXXXX” to be the litmus test for situations there is no decent solution left anymore. It’s not
by hrktb 8y ago
I might be getting old, but more and more I see “vote with your XXXXX” to be the litmus test for situations there is no decent solution left anymore.
It’s not even an advice in the end, just a reminder the customer lost the battle, and the only alternative is to leave the field with what’s left on their posession to go roam the desert.
- rxhernandez 8y agoThis is beautifully written.
- joshstrange 8y agoYou are completely correct, it's an admission of defeat, of helplessness.
- randallsquared 8y agoWhere government is concerned, you’re completely correct. However, voting with your dollars does work well for markets, e.g. grocery stores and the like.
- krageon 8y agoThis is something I hear a lot of (overwhelmingly) American people say, after which I am inevitably reminded of poor healthcare, food deserts and exploitative corporate practices. At this point those are all so entrenched in the "american experience", I don't understand how you can say unironically that "the market" is a fix for anything or does in any situation "work well". It's a superpower, and it is in it's entirety an example that disproves that this is the case.
- IntelMiner 8y agoVirtually all markets lead to an equilibrium of very few businesses that try their hardest not to compete where possible "Voting with your dollars" is a fools argument designed to impart the feeling that the reader somehow has sway over a monopoly
- acct1771 8y agoI don't know, do you think General Mills has the chokehold on breakfast cereal in Paraguay? Pretty sure there's always an option. Nihilism is the worst one.
- liveoneggs 8y agoyou'll still need to file!