Ok, genius . . . take a look at your comment #3. How do you propose compelling people to pay 50 cents more for a pen? You plan to send a nice letter to the pen company asking it to raise its price?
There's really no point in having this conversation if you can't even remember what you've written.
I started that post off with
"We don't need sanctions." I presented that as a choice we can make for ourselves. I didn't say anything about compelling people to make the choice. Where do you see any endorsement of government interference to compel anything in that?