I've written about the futility of "voting with your wallet." Billionaires love it when you try to vote that way. Billionaires are 0.00004% of the population, but their wallets are 100,000x larger than average. So when we wallet-vote, their vote counts 100,000X more than yours:
https://pluralistic.net/2025/09/13/consumption-choices/
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If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:
https://pluralistic.net/2026/05/21/purity-culture/#stop-fucking-that-chicken
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