The ap might even let the company know every time it loses a sale, just to ensure it attributes its revenue decline accurately.
Of course an app like this would need a register of commercial saints and sinners. This could be crowd-sourced, or alternatively advertisements could pay a professional to do it.
Then there is investment power.
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The app might also provide advice on what superannuation funds and managers to avoid on the basis of their social activism.
We could also agitate at the AGMs of the public companies we own. The activists have been doing this for years, as have certain funds managers.
Unlike them we could agitate for wholesome values, like hiring on merit, irrespective of race, gender and age. We could urge them to keep on producing legitimate products like fossil fuels as long as the law allows and leave it to the government to determine Australia's environmental priorities.
We could also demand they be ideologically neutral, except on commercial issues, such as taxation, or sovereign risk, and guarantee an internal environment of viewpoint diversity.
The app could keep us up-to-date on all of this, and also coordinate us at AGMs
Then there is spare time. Many of us have so much time that we have become part-time carers of our grandchildren. This is where we secure the future and atone for the mistakes we made in raising their parents.
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Children are indoctrinated in a myriad of ways: through the school curriculum, and also through the reading list. Whereas we were brought up on the hero or heroes valiantly defending the right, the present generation are just as likely to be reared on fart jokes.
There are good writers out there and you can flood the bookcases of your progeny with them. You can also ask difficult questions like "You know, up in Greenland the ice is retreating and they're finding Viking settlements that have been buried for hundreds of years. How hot do you think it was back then?"
A good app could provide a list of suitable books, and even order them for you, plus a list of unsettling questions on climate change, sustainability, gender, race and so on.
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