The unfortunate truth ain't it

Almost like people with more money than sense can outvote everyone else.

How do you even count "people who didn't buy product X"? There could be millions more, either out of revolt or sheer disinterest, but that just doesn't matter for the companies selling a product. The only votes that end up counting are the ones from people buying.

People really need to drop that saying, because the market was never a democracy and it will never be. Hell, companies can even ignore the paying customers to do something else entirely because the ones who have the most money are the investors.

Or maybe most people just don't care all that much.

Dozens + 1, friend!

It works a lot better when there are many choices, fair competition in the market, and the traits being voted on are painfully obvious.

It's a struggle. Boycotts are historically very hard to be effective and I feel that the Internet has made it even more difficult. Protests need their own marketing and companies at an international scale feel almost immune from any public movements.

That said, voting with your wallet, like boycotts, do work. They just need people to be consistent and informed. But it does work.

Look at Star Wars Battlefront 2 (the 2nd). Prerelease it got over -600k downvotes and substantially hurt the game to the point that they reworked the entire system. If gamers had just bought the game and played anyway, EA wouldn't have needed to actually rework it. But they were so worried about the performance of the game that they actually made a change.

Same for Sonic the Hedgehog. He looked so, so terrible that the fear of losing money made him get fixed.

Granted, these two are examples of something becoming changed before full release, but in spirit the effect is the same. Corporation scared to lose money so changes are made to help make money. Voting with your wallet does work. It just needs to be marketed right. Edit: and I completely forgot the context here, which is that for something like tech, while consumers can have a choice, corporations do too. That's where the struggle comes in

undereducation. The missing skill here is critical thinking, and critical thinking is something that you don't usually get a lot of practice with until college. The conservative strategy of raising the price of college, refusing to spend money on student aid, and demonizing college professors as liberal brainwashers has been quite effective in keeping their constituents away from higher education.

You don't have to do anything, but you're still encouraging this behavior no matter how you choose to look at it. If that doesn't bother you, then idk why you're even replying.