• eltrain123@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    It does work like that. You vote with your dollars. If you buy these companies’ products, you confirm they made the right decision.

    If enough people abandon their products, they change the model or die.

    What you say you like and what your dollars say you like are 2 different things. The sooner people realize this the faster things will improve. But, if people are unwilling to avoid buying products from bad companies, things will get worse. Welcome to capitalism.

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      1 year ago

      Unfortunately you’re not quite right with this one. As an individual, me choosing not to buy a new Samsung TV which has ads on the menu isn’t going to directly effect the sales and/or profit of the model to any measurable significant margin.

      If the entire population was able to communicate as one hive mind and apply your utopian strategy it would work, but unfortunately its exceptionally difficult to convince that amount of people.

      This is the exact same concept and difficulty behind battling climate change (not buying and doing things which hurt the environment)

      Yes I agree capitalism is … Well… Capitalism 🤣