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It's weird that somebody thinks mainstream companies refusing to advertise on more controversial but popular properties is a good thing. It tells you those main

It's weird that somebody thinks mainstream companies refusing to advertise on more controversial but popular properties is a good thing. It tells you those mainstream companies have way too much market power and something should be done to mitigate that, up to and including breaking the mainstream company up. There should be so much competition that few companies would ever choose to ignore a popular property with customers likely to use their product. While this may be an innocuous abuse of market power, or perhaps even an abuse you agree with, companies that are abusing their market power are rarely doing it in just one dimension and one has to wonder just how bad the world is getting screwed in less obvious/ in our face ways.

koonsolo 4y ago
1. Companies choose to make money above everything else. 2. Companies choose ethics above making money. You can only pick one, and it seems you want companies to go for option 1. I want to see more companies go for option 2.
- snapplebobapple 4y ago
  First of all, that's not what I said. What I said was all of them choosing to miss out on influencing the customers of a popular (and law abiding) property indicates way too much market power, which almost certainly means us consumers are getting screwed on multiple other fronts by these companies. Second of all, wanting companies to choose ethics over making money is an illogical position because ethics vary greatly across the population and it's only a matter of time before someone abuses market power to get big enough to be able to choose their ethics over their profitability.That you happen to agree with the ethics advertised by today's market power abusers does not mean you always will. Can you imagine if Walmart started shoving their founder's staunch conservative christian values in your face? How about all the business owners that are conservative muslims, do you want those ethics being chosen? It is far better to regulate the most important ethical beliefs of the day through the democratic system of our government and have businesses with so little market power that they don't dare inpose their personal values on the rest of us for fear of losing their customers to the myriad of competitors biting at their heels in the market.

koonsolo 4y ago

1. Companies choose to make money above everything else. 2. Companies choose ethics above making money. You can only pick one, and it seems you want companies to go for option 1. I want to see more companies go for option 2.

snapplebobapple 4y ago
First of all, that's not what I said. What I said was all of them choosing to miss out on influencing the customers of a popular (and law abiding) property indicates way too much market power, which almost certainly means us consumers are getting screwed on multiple other fronts by these companies. Second of all, wanting companies to choose ethics over making money is an illogical position because ethics vary greatly across the population and it's only a matter of time before someone abuses market power to get big enough to be able to choose their ethics over their profitability.That you happen to agree with the ethics advertised by today's market power abusers does not mean you always will. Can you imagine if Walmart started shoving their founder's staunch conservative christian values in your face? How about all the business owners that are conservative muslims, do you want those ethics being chosen? It is far better to regulate the most important ethical beliefs of the day through the democratic system of our government and have businesses with so little market power that they don't dare inpose their personal values on the rest of us for fear of losing their customers to the myriad of competitors biting at their heels in the market.