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PayPal owns brands like Venmo, Honey and is heavily integrated into eBay - if you're looking to stop giving your money to bad companies, take a second to search their subsidiary brands as well. (brandsownedby.com)

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Now apply that logic to voting. Your vote is a grain of sugar, yet it somehow does have an effect, doesn't it?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 hours ago

Yep. Because your vote is not based on how much capital you have, but assigned (more or less) equally across the population.

I did the math. The average US-ian's vote counts as much as Elon Musk's (if they live in the same state). On average their "wallet vote" counts 0.00002% as much as Musk's. Even before he bought the presidency, by the way, just as a matter of purchasing power.

Where do you think you have more of an effect?

Again, voting with your wallet has exactly zero value. Your money is a rounding error compared to your vote and your direct political action.