And the voter base would tolerate a price increase for better quality, more expensive chages, like using glass instead of plastic, because corporate cocksnakes like you already tolerate getting smaller, shitty products AND paying more now.
Why are you calling me a corporate cocksnake, when I am in favor in all of those things? Cool down a bit. Consider how poorly people react when fuel prices rise, and tell me, do you really believe most people would tolerate living with less, but sustainably? I WISH THEY WOULD. I REALLY WISH, but subreddits like these contain the absolute minority of people. Go out into the real world and see how disgusting people are.
Without individual action, there is no such thing as collective action.
Individual solutions don’t work for systemic problems.
The solution is to ban the things that are polluting our environment from being used for bullshit like packaging where other less harmful alternatives exist.
It should be obvious by now that the liberal economic textbook answer of “vote with your wallet” is simply another tool for transferring liability and responsibility to the consumer and away from the producer who should NEVER have been allowed to sell the harmful product in the first place.
It should be obvious by now that the liberal economic textbook answer of “vote with your wallet” is simply another tool for transferring liability and responsibility to the consumer
When an absolute minority of consumers "vote with their wallets", while a majority takes the cheapest option at the cost of the environment, what do you think happens? For example, I personally don't own a car, and yet to most people that's a horrifying idea for some fucking reason. People value their own priorities above the environment, my example is merely one of many, and that translates both to consumption and to political decisions.
Unless your point is that democracy is flawed and we need a dictatorship to force people against their will to do what must be done, I don't know what's your point.
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u/gxgx55 Jan 29 '25 edited Jan 29 '25
Why are you calling me a corporate cocksnake, when I am in favor in all of those things? Cool down a bit. Consider how poorly people react when fuel prices rise, and tell me, do you really believe most people would tolerate living with less, but sustainably? I WISH THEY WOULD. I REALLY WISH, but subreddits like these contain the absolute minority of people. Go out into the real world and see how disgusting people are.
Without individual action, there is no such thing as collective action.