So what do you do as a consumer to encourage businesses to invest in more environmentally sustainable work practices?
I would encourage consumers to reduce their debt levels, stop spending so frivolously, reduce reuse recycle and demand these globalists/bankers go to jail for the fraud they perpetuate instead of getting fined the equivalent of a parking ticket ....
Gotta start somewhere .... capitalist theory is just a distraction ... the reality however is different ...
...Unless you are proposing coercive solutions that take away people's right to own and trade property. (which I don't think you are doing.)
So this. A few make choices consciously, and try to be as informed as possible. Some just want, aren't sure why they want, but they know what, thanks to subconscious programming. The consumer may have "the power", but only superficially. I'm not supporting the current system, just saying that the alternative proposed, though perfect in theory, will not be so in practice. Potentially though, as wages for idiots decrease to the point of basic subsistence, their collective delegated power will be reduced enough for conscious consumers relative power to be meaningful enough for the proposed system to work. This leads to a whole new set of issues though, where the stupid will lack the resources to lift their intelligence, and inevitably resort to violence. Could work out though, we do need to depopulate a bit.
Back on the topic of "The anti-capitalistic mentality" I just had a conversation with a talented graphic designer who often does work for us, She was brought up in a (then) communist country in Eastern Europe and when we brought up the topic of people who are anti-capitalist she just laughed and said that clearly they haven't tried living under most communist systems.
I could have just as easily said consumers are irrelevant and will feed on the slop they are given .... the cows are not in charge of the farm ....
Tell that to Holden and Ford who couldn't make any money because people DECIDED they wanted different cars.
Or maybe they were just relying on the business plan of taxpayer assistance. They didn't keep up with obvious market trends and continued to build over sized and powered American style cars.
But consumers are not irrelevant and every day they act upon both sound and poor decision making processes to determine what they will or what they won't buy. I'm both amused and exasperated at times that those that like to label consumers as dumb, easily led and the gullible victims of slick marketing campaigns never include themselves in that group. :/ It's very convenient to blame the woes of the world on those that actually make money by producing goods that others want. Every week I make sound informed decisions about my consumption, every week I also make poor decisions either because I'm ill-informed or just plain lazy and don't care.
