The trouble with "voting with your dollars" is that it doesn't, and can't, work. When the vast majority of consumers simply consume without consideration of th

The trouble with "voting with your dollars" is that it doesn't, and can't, work. When the vast majority of consumers simply consume without consideration of their own rights, there's no way for those of us with the wisdom to stand up for our own rights to gather the critical mass we need for "voting with our dollars" to be more than a blip on balance sheets. There simply aren't enough of us that are critically-minded to make a difference by simply not buying. People are too accustomed to the status quo - consumers expect things to not work as they want them to. Their expectations of the norm must change before they will join us in rejection of the status quo. The core of this problem comes from bad legislation. Until that changes, and until those laws are fixed, we can't even begin to set things right. Simply avoiding bad products is not enough.