Comment by ribosometronome
11 hours ago
Not spending money at Target is not voting with your wallet. Voting with your wallet is the spending you do at a business that isn't Target instead.
11 hours ago
Not spending money at Target is not voting with your wallet. Voting with your wallet is the spending you do at a business that isn't Target instead.
However voting is different. We don't vote for a policy (although that is a common misconception.) The collective power of voting is often voting against a person/party : voting them out.
We spent money on goods/services we choose, and receiving money is a very strong signal to a business. Not spending money is an extremely weak signal.
Opposites.
That all sounds quite similar rather than different.
>We don't vote for a policy (although that is a common misconception.) The collective power of voting is often voting against a person/party : voting them out.
Few people get coffee to support union labor but knowing that a coffee shop is actively antagonistic toward unionization may cause you to choose a different shop. The collective power of voting with your dollar is to 'vote in' businesses. The businesses not receiving votes must change or find themselves voted out. Much like politicians, businesses can also look at where the money-votes are going.