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One potential take-away is that aphorisms like “vote with your wallet” are a bit silly, assuming you’re nowhere near that top 10%.
by tshaddox 5y ago
One potential take-away is that aphorisms like “vote with your wallet” are a bit silly, assuming you’re nowhere near that top 10%.
- what_is_orcas 5y agoThis is complicated. I live in a poor neighborhood in a reasonably large city. I shop locally (even avoiding the more affluent neighborhoods), exclusively if possible, as a matter of voting with my wallet because the businesses in my neighborhood employ mostly local folks. At large scale, yeah, you're right. But for a small local business, one or two extra regular customers can be a bigger difference (drop in a bucket vs drop in the ocean). Even something like shopping at a local big-box supports the local proletariat more than shopping at Amazon, where the proletariat isn't guaranteed to be local at all (and to be clear: it's more about supporting the proletariat than the capitalists).