That doesn't work when companies become too big to fail, though. Even if companies such as Google or Facebook started to whip their employees and have their lunch break removed (obviously an illegal exaggeration, but to bring the point across), they are still big enough to go bankrupt even if people boycott them.
Well for one thing you also pay more at the point of sale. The cost has to go somewhere; it goes to the customer up to the point it's not hurting the indication to buy. And when everybody's in the same snare and applying the same solution, it's at least a little easier because the effect is universal. Or maybe the government is subsizing them, but that gets paid for how? Probably VAT or similar, which, again, flows directly into the point of sale cost.
"Cost" isn't, strictly speaking, the same as matter and energy their their respective laws of conservation - but it's not entirely different either. Cost can't just be wished away. It's why even the thing people have declared or want to declare "free" aren't, because all that's changing is who is paying and in what context -- because it still has cost.
No company is too big to fail, it's just the state refuses to let them because companies of that size are effectively quasi-governmental operations. In the case of the American auto industry, for example, secured creditors got screwed over in the "managed bankruptcies" so that these companies could carry on as healthcare and retirement planning services for their employees that also happened to occasionally make vehicles. In the finance industry, they weren't allowed to fail mostly because they benefited from political patronage. In both cases, we should have let them take the hit and the economy rebuild.
I'd look for answers in history. For some reason, a proper workers party never took root in the US as they did in Western Europe.
"In order to maintain a tolerant society, the society must be intolerant of intolerance." Paradox of tolerance
Why? Big companies are all soulless disgusting things, but I have zero sympathy for people, who willingly subject themselves to them, aka crying for the free market. So if those people want to be exploited so bad and turn up their nose at any possibility to better their situation, they deserve a shitty stressful life.
So, you are saying you are lazy, and want the government to do everything for you... got it.
Or, you could stop spending money at those companies
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Maybe, they should get different jobs.
Maybe you should stop giving those companies your business.
Not lazy, just realistic. How many boycotts in the past have shut down any mid-sized and up business? Not many.
I'm just for protecting the weak against the strong. The weak need more protections over those with the advantage. Stuff like 4 weeks vacation, paid sick days and employment protections are good for the workforce. Happy employees, who love their job, bring more profit than sad and stressed out employees do. It's not cheap bringing in new employees either.
Once again, complacency and laziness isn't someone else's fault.
As a consumer and employee, you have power. Don't blame others, because you refuse to exercise that power.
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Of course you are paid enough. If you weren't, then get a different job.
Oh noes whatever will I do now, enjoying my retirement home before retirement I guess.
Why? The goal of your employer is to exploit to the absolute maximum, any employee should see their employer in exactly the same light, trying to get as much as possible in return for their service.
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