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• agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  you do it by boycotting them

  No, you don’t. “Vote with your dollars” does not count. So long as some people have more money than others, that gives some people more vote.

  then make better laws

  Then better lawyers, repeat ad infinitum. There’s no such thing as a perfect law, there’s always some loopholes. If you can’t lobby your way around it, that is.

  Have you looked at the news in the last few months??? Voting doesn’t work as nicely as you would like it think it does

  Certainly. But it’s even worse when it comes to private companies. As weak as the countermeasures baked into government are, they’re ironclad compared to the countermeasures in capitalism.

  No system is perfect. The goal is to find one that’s least bad.

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  • untakenusername@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    “Vote with your dollars” does not count.

    its a weighted vote based on how much money you are willing to spend. If you want a larger impact orginize a boycott

    Then better lawyers, repeat ad infinitum. There’s no such thing as a perfect law, there’s always some loopholes. If you can’t lobby your way around it, that is.

    Then if they get better lawyers you make better law. There are several examples of an eternal cat and mouse chase in the modern world

    No system is perfect. The goal is to find one that’s least bad.

    I want to own my own things and I want to own whatever factories I spent money constructing. My personal property. And to stop me from abusing my workers or whatever there can be laws that stop me

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    • agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      its a weighted vote based on how much money you are willing to spend.

      Correct, which means capitalists with orders of magnitude more money has more influence than a boycott. A company with lots of money can weather a boycott longer than people stay committed. A company with massive market share cannot be effectively boycotted. Look at Nestle, constantly being boycotted but they’re rich enough and diversified enough to ignore the boycotts. This isn’t a lack of conviction of the consumer, it’s a fundamental property of the system.

      Then if they get better lawyers you make better law. There are several examples of an eternal cat and mouse chase in the modern world

      You keep trying to put bandaids on a gushing wound. We’ve shown beyond any doubt that the bandaids are incapable of keeping up.

      I want to own my own things and I want to own whatever factories I spent money constructing. My personal property. And to stop me from abusing my workers or whatever there can be laws that stop me

      I want my own things and don’t want anyone to siphon enough money from the value created by others to afford constructing a factory. No one earns that much money. Those fortunes come from being a parasite.

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