Other companies do the same, and their products are now so ubiquitous that you basically can’t exist in society without them.
If you “vote with your wallet” then the people with the biggest wallets have the most say over how society is run.
And that is precisely the reason we find ourselves in this situation, and that’s not how democracy is supposed to work.
It’s like saying “if you oppose slavery, don’t support businesses that sell slaves. Problem solved!”, when obviously the practice itself needs to be challenged and abolished, it shouldn’t be up to market forces to decide because that’s how you end up with slavery and all this other bullshit in the first place.
anarchy79@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Other companies do the same, and their products are now so ubiquitous that you basically can’t exist in society without them.
If you “vote with your wallet” then the people with the biggest wallets have the most say over how society is run.
And that is precisely the reason we find ourselves in this situation, and that’s not how democracy is supposed to work.
It’s like saying “if you oppose slavery, don’t support businesses that sell slaves. Problem solved!”, when obviously the practice itself needs to be challenged and abolished, it shouldn’t be up to market forces to decide because that’s how you end up with slavery and all this other bullshit in the first place.