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> You cannot buy something that doesn't exist or is otherwise unavailable.

Of course you can. Facilitating such a thing is Kickstarter's entire business model, as an example. You can also refrain from buying, communicating to other people that "I'm not buying your product unless you..." which gives really strong incentive to do things differently.

It's not like government is some kind of magical thing. It's just people. And in the case of democratic government, it's the very same people.

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> You can also refrain from buying

Day 56 after I refrained from buying food: I'm now dead.

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If only the people had chosen to enact a law that made it illegal to sell you food packaged in harmful packaging that you had already decided not to buy. I mean, you'd still be dead, but you'd have 56 days of satisfaction knowing that your voice was heard.