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Voting with your wallet never works. You need to vote with your vote, or better yet, vote with a billionaire's wallet and buy some lobbyists.

• thuridas 3y ago
  Why not both. To start a change you need to vote with your wallet. To make it law you need to vote in your ballot
  • ethanbond 3y ago
    “Why not” in this case because you have no clue which products have or don’t have these compounds, and whether any alternatives exist. I go way out of my way to buy products that are specifically branded as free of e.g. PFAS, like in shampoos, but these “loudly branded” alternatives don’t exist in most categories.
• orangepurple 3y ago
  Buying lobbyists works. You may need a few years or a few more decades to realize your other claims also don't work because the system has been completely gamed by vested interests.
• seec 3y ago
  I would argue that it is actually the only thing that works, and the "real" vote is just for shows. You kinda agree with that in your last sentence. I don't think "real" voting works because it just reflects the aggregate of people's choices on a single variable. But your choices in life are an almost infinite number of variables and they almost always involve money/ressources. It's gotta be a more effective reflection when you consider the aggregate. But anyway, in this case, I think the outrage is completely blown out of proportion and it probably isn't as bad as they make it out to be. It reads like a propaganda campaign from some government employed scientist that want funding to research the subject. I mean we should put some funds into it, but they have to give really hard results that it is actually a problem. So far everything on the subject is rather elusive and surface level. They use a lot of flowery language but not a whole lot of hard data...