Stock prices rise and fall with public whims and if you're a big enough asshole it is possible to turn away the paying customers that you require to keep your power and money. Tesla is seeing it happen.

Not to mention,

[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 1 points 9 months ago

Meh, so many people posting the guillotine, saying that the French have a solution....

Well? We're waaaiiiiting! When is your big mouth going to join the actual action?

[–] zloubida@sh.itjust.works 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

If there was social retribution, if shitty behaviour turned away customers, Amazon would not exist. Musk did everything to be hated by everyone and, surprise, he's still the richest man on Earth. Trump was reelected.

The retribution powerful people fear is only marginal.

[–] skulblaka@sh.itjust.works 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

This doesn't have to be true if everyone were on the same page about it.

[–] zloubida@sh.itjust.works 1 points 9 months ago

It doesn't have to be true, maybe. It shouldn't be true, for sure. But it is, and always was, for as long as we have historical sources.