| ▲ | zugi 7 hours ago | |
Voting with your wallet lets you send dozens of fine-grained messages a day. You support companies you want to support, and don't support those you don't want. Others will choose differently and that's fine for them. The mere existence of businesses you dislike is not a sign that this process has failed, you don't have the right to stop others from getting what they want to pay for. Voting in federal elections in the US lets you send a message of less then one bit per year. It's a horribly ineffective method. Apple exists because plenty of people vote for it with their wallets. I don't. But I don't mind that it exists. I vote against Google when I can. I block ads and use Duck Duck Go as my default search engine. But the results are so poor compared to Google that I switch to use Google often. That's a sign to me that their product is worth my occasional, small "vote", and I'm okay with that. | ||