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grugagag 11 hours ago

Review and vote with your wallet and your feet

venturecruelty 9 hours ago | parent | next [-]

This strategy is so successful, it brought down Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Philip Morris, Frito-Lay, PepsiCo, Coca-Cola, Monsanto, and Boeing.

Aloisius 8 hours ago | parent | next [-]

People voting with their wallet are why Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Philip Morris, Frito-Lay, PepsiCo, Coca-Cola, Monsanto and Boeing are still in business.

And people voting with their wallet have led to literally hundreds of thousands of companies going out of business.

So yeah, it is successful.

4gotunameagain 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

You might need to read up on the concept of a monopoly.

philipallstar 24 minutes ago | parent [-]

Possibly you might need to.

dymk 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Ah yes, people voted with their wallets, some people just have much larger wallets than others.

bryan_w 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Is it possible that people just think differently than you? Or is everyone else wrong?

Eisenstein 3 hours ago | parent [-]

Or perhaps the individual's dollar is not really that effective. It's like plastic recycling -- it is a way to make the consumer feel like it is their job to fix things that they really have no responsibility for or control over.

the_af 8 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I think Boeings bring themselves down on their own.

ba-dum-tish!

Psype 5 hours ago | parent [-]

Terrain, terrain.

stavros 10 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I did indeed.