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Where government is concerned, you’re completely correct. However, voting with your dollars does work well for markets, e.g. grocery stores and the like.
by randallsquared 8y ago
Where 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.