Comment on Gamers enraged at Ubisoft for injecting ads into the middle of video games
soggy_kitty@sopuli.xyz 10 months agoI wish that’s how the world worked, unfortunately it’s not
It does work like that. You vote with your dollars. If you buy these companies’ products, you confirm they made the right decision.
If enough people abandon their products, they change the model or die.
What you say you like and what your dollars say you like are 2 different things. The sooner people realize this the faster things will get improve. But, if people are unwilling to avoid buying products from bad companies, things will get worse. Welcome to capitalism.
Unfortunately you’re not quite right in this one. As an individual, me choosing not to buy a new Samsung TV which has ads on the menu isn’t going to direct effect the sales and/or profit of the model to any measurable significant margin.
If the entire population was able to communicate as one hive mind and apply your utopian strategy it would work, but unfortunately it doesn’t.
And this is the exact same concept behind battling climate change.
You don’t have to be a hive mind to make a difference. Everyone gets one vote (or one bank account) to make things better or worse, even if it is only a very small amount. You can contribute to the society you want or the society that is convenient. Sometimes you have to sacrifice comfort (or entertainment) to influence the things you want society to be. If enough people agree, things get better. If you are just bitching about how you are being taken advantage of but willingly allow it to happen… c’est la vie…
Society is a collection of individuals. If enough people buy into the “1 person can’t change things” then everyone makes things worse a little but at a time. Buy what you want, vote how you want, but you are making things better or worse with every choice you make.
It would if everybody votes with their wallet.
They do. That’s the problem.
I like to compare that argument to climate change. If everyone voted with their wallet to not buy/do things which are bad for the environment we would stop climate change over night.
Now think about how impossible that is and then remember that collective effort is just as difficult as stopping people buying things which contain ads
No it wouldn’t. Corpos would just put in more effort to hide the damage. Climate change can’t be stopped by individual consumers because they have no means to verify whether a product they want to buy hurts the environment.
There are products which you can guarantee have a major negative effect on the environment yet people still purchase them. This is exactly the same as people buying games and products with ads baked in.
Johanno@feddit.de 10 months ago
The World worked that way, but people accepted the new ad contained products they paid for.
People even think it is fine to buy a product you don’t own
xGIHOST@lemmy.world 10 months ago
And people are making excuses for the forever inflating greed…
I mean, how do you accept inflating prices and costs while your salary has been stagnant for decades?
It just doesn’t make sense how costs, on individuals, are growing and growing.
Johanno@feddit.de 10 months ago
I don’t I just pay the same amount since I was born /s
xGIHOST@lemmy.world 10 months ago
And get less and less for the same payment :p