Pluralistic: You can't shop your way out of a monopoly (05 Mar 2024)

https://pluralistic.net/2024/03/05/the-map-is-not-the-territory/#apor-locksmith

We want to be able to vote with our wallets, because it's so much faster and more convenient than voting with our ballots. But the vote-with-your-wallet election is rigged for the people with the thickest wallets. Try as hard as you'd like, you just can't shop your way out of a monopoly – that's like trying to recycle your way out of the climate emergency. Systemic problems need systemic solutions – not individual ones.

#cory #doctorow #cory-doctorow #monopoly #competition #democracy #freedom #liberty