Because "morality" is a uniquely human trait, and we elect politicians to enact laws (which are group morality, codified).

We pay businesses for goods and services.

Aren't businesses run by humans? The government is run by people too, are they incapable of morality as well?

So you're just going to pick and choose as it suits you, and then act baffled when people point out the hypocrisy in that course?

Oh.

You asked my logic, I gave it to you, you respond and say that I "pick and choose", with sarcasm.

Please stop being a childish.

What's laughable? You can choose which businesses you want to interact with anytime you want, and if you don't like their policies, choose someone else.

While you can "choose" a politician, you get whoever the group chose for 2-6 years. Don't like your president or their morals? Deal with it until the next round of choice.

I think that imbalance in individual authority and power gives everyone the right to hold public and private individuals to different standards.

With all due respect, "the group" decides what I can buy just as much as they decide who represents me.

Remember the time when there was a single phone out that combined flagship performance with a size that fits comfortably in one hand? Or the time when laptop manufacturers included PgUp/PgDown/Home/End keys instead of hiding all of those behind a Fn key? Or the time when I could use the internet without being tracked by every single competitor? Good luck avoiding Facebook or Google Docs when your charity has bought into those for communication?

The businesses everyone's fawning about are also the businesses who have best figured out protection from customer choice by employing lock-in and network effects. That's not choice, that's rule by moat.

Customer choice is for suckers. When a flood of ads and convenience can lure the masses, who would even pay attention to the few idiots who vote with their wallets or think of long-term market implications?

My wallet has no more effect on product availability than my vote has on the politician who represents me and what policies they support.

Business aren't actually people, they are fictions. Your judgement doesn't appeal to their consciences or affect their senses of self-worth. They don't have hearts. Strategies appealing to their better natures are doomed to fail.