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Problem is: The larger the wallet, the larger the vote. Also, consumers get manipulated to buy into black boxes all the time. Nobody wants to know how their sa
by wnkrshm 3y ago
Problem is: The larger the wallet, the larger the vote.
Also, consumers get manipulated to buy into black boxes all the time. Nobody wants to know how their sausage is made but everyone would buy one. A company that is perfectly transparent about their supply chain would fail.
- Towaway69 3y agoWell yes and no, in not purchasing something I am also making a statement. Manipulation has to do with education and sources of information. But as long as the notion that happiness can only be found in purchasing products, then not much will change. Perhaps poverty can be a good thing.
- wnkrshm 3y agoThe sources of information are the limit though - to make a better world using this sort of 'consumption vote'[0], businesses and their relationships need to be way more transparent, with possibly a regulated transparency. I wonder whether there could be FOSS business intelligence to a degree that the most likely business relationships of entities will be estimated and published, automatically. And then companies that actually supply data about their supply chains etc. will have a marketing advantage. [0] you cannot organize this vote, since there are anti-boycott laws
- Towaway69 3y agoAnti-boycott laws, but surely only between nation states? Being forced to purchase something would seem little dictatorial. Boycott could also include purchasing an EV - thereby the consumer is boycotting the oil industry. Meaning there does not necessarily need to be transparency of the supply chain to make a consumption vote.