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You've got to be shitting me: 'voting with their money' is not at all a valid point, nor would it ever trump that of an elected representative. Notice that Sta

You've got to be shitting me: 'voting with their money' is not at all a valid point, nor would it ever trump that of an elected representative. Notice that Starbucks and Amazon are american lifestyle companies, of course there is going to be an appeal to the lower income class for services that are immediate and cheap. Since they are paid a poverty wage, they are too busy working to have the time to do things like go out for lunch or cook a meal. A woah, guess what? Those business models perpetuate the same conditions that lower work environment standards, wages, employee health and morale. It's a positive feedback system that needs to be nipped in the bud before it completely devours the French economy.

LekkoscPiwa 13y ago
Starbucks is expensive. Probably more than a regular coffee at a regular French cafe. If french from all nations prefer to have more expensive coffee at starbucks than at their local vendor this just shows how badly the local vendors need to start to get back to work. Not that a regulation is needed to protect them from better competition. This might work in the short run, but it long term lack of exposure to competition will just make them weaker than they already are. And there is another, moral hazard kind of a point: Why would you like to force people to buy something they perceive as worse? You are right they worked hard to get this money and this is not your or Government business how they spend it.