Vote with your wallet has never worked. Even the most basic economic principles like supply and demand have been shown to be broken in the last few years. Count

Vote with your wallet has never worked. Even the most basic economic principles like supply and demand have been shown to be broken in the last few years. Countless businesses have begun rent-seeking with quarterly price increases, opaque markups hidden until it's time to swipe your card, outright theft from customers and employees, etc. Even if they alienate a few people, there's always more ignorant/stupid people who won't research before they make a purchase and who will go along with whatever is done to them anyway. And it's compounded with things like housing and food. You can't go without either unless you want to live a completely undignified existence and with a vastly shortened lifespan. Another example to throw in there is indoor smoking too. People never stopped going out to eat or to bars when you were forced to sit in a thick haze of second hand smoke, and even if you did avoid it there were hundreds of other people who didn't care. I can't imagine how things would be if the push to get rid of it happened in more recent times rather than 20-25 years ago. Red states certainly would have never banned it and there would be droves of people going out intentionally to force you to inhale their second hand smoke to own the libs.