• Dyskolos@lemmy.zip
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    12 hours ago

    Luckily I don’t have kids and hence don’t have to buy them such crap 😁

    But yeah sure, I’m all in for regulations. But voting with your wallet is still the most basic way to say “lol no”. If I’d be hellbent on gaming on-the-go I’m sure there are alternatives that come close at least. If not, the I guess I’d carry a laptop around for that

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      12 hours ago

      No it is not.

      Voting with your wallet does nothing. It’s a neoliberal fiction capitalism uses to pretend regulation is unnecessary.

      Voting with your wallet is dependent on everybody else with a wallet even knowing that there’s something to vote about. Most people don’t.

      And voting with your wallet means you have a tiny wallet in a world with a TON of tiny wallets and a few very big, huge-ass humongous wallets, so your wallet vote doesn’t count for crap compared with your one-vote-per-person vote, if you have access to one of those.

      So no, voting with your wallet is barely useful at best, just the normal flow of the market ideally, entirely pointless at worst.