We hire politicians by voting for them based on their promises, ideals and principles. Some of them turn around and sell out their employers to 3rd parties for more money than they can make honorably serving their trustees. When these politicians appoint business owners to accomplish certain objectives and those objectives/means/policies then don’t align with the citizens that voted for the politicians, ceasing to purchase goods/services sold by the business owner is a legitimate (and very effective) means of voting disapproval of the un-elected individual. In an environment where civilian citizens are losing more and more of the levers of control to concentrated wealth and fringe ideologies, democracy has a better chance when additional legitimate levers are applied to achieve a favorable outcome for the greater public population.
(This post was refined in collaboration with Anthropic’s Claude)
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