• theneverfox
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    1 year ago

    Could you provide me an example of when voting with your wallet worked?

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      1 year ago

      Sure. See, im not gonna buy this game, and Im gonna still have my $90 dollars.

      Someone else who does want that early access for $90 will get what they want.

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        1 year ago

        That’s not even you voting with your wallet. That’s just you not buying a thing because it’s too expensive. That’s an example of price elasticity

        Voting with your wallet is this flawed concept that consumers can control companies through individuals boycotting their products.

        For example, I uninstalled hearthstone and quit Blizzard along with many others back when they let China censor a US esports player who commented on Hong Kong protests. But now I wouldn’t buy anyways, because their games suck and their payment schemes are obscene

        All they know is they lost n customers in that time period, and failed to recover m

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          1 year ago

          That’s just you not buying a thing because it’s too expensive.

          yeah, that’s what Im doing. I am not hurt in anyway by not buying this thing, no one is making me buy it. That is an option for literally everyone, no one has to buy it. Im not a protesting activist trying to change Blizzard, Im simply not affected by this. The only people that are, are people that want to pay $90 for early access. If they dont want to, nobody is making them.

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            1 year ago

            Yeah, that’s fine. I’m also not interested, because i don’t play wow anymore

            But the phrase “voting with your wallet” is a term loaded with a narrative to justify everything under capitalism, from anti-consumer behaviors to blaming working people for climate change. Neoconservatives and Libertarians use the idea for how deregulation and privitization is the solution to everything

            You don’t seem to believe in that nonsense, so I’d encourage you to not use the phrase

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                1 year ago

                Huh, yeah fair enough, your post just had that energy.

                I mean, obviously you don’t have to buy a game, but saying just “you don’t have to buy the product from the company being anti-consumer” sounds a lot like a defense of them, you know?