EU absolutely is a country.

  • shalafi@lemmy.world
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    5 days ago

    Voting with your wallet is some US anarchocapitalist nonsense

    I don’t understand what you mean.

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      5 days ago

      Man, such an exhausting tangent to go on.

      Oversimplifying, “vote with your wallet” is a dereliction of duty of regulation, assuming that magical market forces will impose positive outcomes if we all just chip in on some sort of soft boycott.

      In practice, at scale, people can’t be expected to run a personal audit of all the money they spend or all the things they need. Money isn’t support. Support is support. Preventing market forces from doing garbage stuff is what regulations are for, not consumer spending choices.

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      They mean it doesn’t work. “Vote with your wallet” is pushed heavily by billionaires. Almost like they have the biggest wallets…