Ring the Dollar Bell - Vote with your Wallet
We all understand the importance of the ballot box and who hasn’t heard of the Liberty Bell. Perhaps it’s time we create a highly visible online Dollar Bell and begin to vote with our wallets. Individual purchasing power allows us to hold businesses accountable by either rewarding or punishing them based on our preferences, values, beliefs and politics. Companies will either hear the productive ding, ding, ding of incoming dollars or silent disapproval.
An individual
voting with their wallet is barely significant as one billionaire can offset a lot of purchases, consequently
voting with your wallet MUST resonate with the masses. Grassroots consumer boycotts are extremely
powerful as we have all witnessed with the recent decline of Budweiser.
Politicians can’t get elected without
financial support and less
money for businesses that are not in step with voter concerns means less money
for the politicians they keep in their pockets. On the other hand, politicians and
their webmasters should be decidedly proactive because someone is eventually
going to hit on the right formula and make a voting with your wallet website happen
in a big way. There will be challenges, but it would behoove some savvy politician
to be the first out of the gate. Just ask Burger King.
Large
corporations and their profit-minded shareholders work tirelessly to dominate
the marketplace by any means possible. Financial coercion has already been
demonstrated at the very top, as Blackrock, the world’s largest institutional
investor, said it would no longer do business with companies that would not
articulate their social position. But there is one thing that is undeniable.
There are a whole lot more consumers than there are shareholders and an easy-to-use, highly visible and informative website we
can call www.ringthedollarbell.com would be a beacon for hordes of conscientious voters to flex their
purses. Who is going to set the standard?©
By Marjan, Author
of Fasting Firepower - A Guide to
Fasting, Detoxification, Natural Healing and a Mountain Moving Life