What's a quick and easy way to debunk consumer sovereignty? Voting with your dollars, that short of mental retardation

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Pretty simple, every poll ever shows that 95% of people will say they prefer to buy American/British/Local products (especially food), any study of actual consumer behaviour shows you that's not true.

When was the last time you seen "Made In UK" in a British store besides cosmetics and food? The only thing I can think of was a wheel barrow that I can't use anyway because I don't have a garden to make use of it in.

But whilst UK retailers have replaced British goods with cheaper imports (whilst pocketing the difference) making the decision preemptively for consumers, British shoppers can still buy British goods online if they really wanted to but they don't.

I think I'm the only one I know who bothers, my underwear, my TV and trainers are UK made. Nearly everything else in my home is made in China except for some Polish glassware, Romanian bowls, an American spatula, a German saucepan, a French iron and my sports knee sleeves are UK made too.

It's a joke when they say capitalism offers you freedom of choice or that capitalism doesn't exist in the 3rd world when everything in a typical 1st world household is made in the 3rd world.

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Consumers don't have enough information. Hell, not even the company making a thing has enough information about how it is made, they get stuff from suppliers who get stuff from suppliers who get stuff… Is there child labor involved? Maybe. *shrugs*

If people vote it their wallets, it follows that the more money one has, the more political power too. Nice post and all but I don't see what all those other posters are seeing.

In today's data economy companies respond to hashtags and secrit Facebook not the consumer hotline.

The thing with money is that money is leverage. So, it isn't just that somebody with more money than you has more power in a way equal to that ratio of money you two have. 100 000 people with 10 000 dollars each have less power together as 1 person with 1 000 000 000.