If everyone were like me, who would go broke?

This is an interesting thought exercise that I run every now and then (when I have absolutely nothing else to do, i.e. while riding along with someone in the car or sitting on the throne) and the list is more extensive now than it was a few years ago.

If everyone were like me:

- Coffee shops would be out of business
- Bars would be out of business
- Tobacco stores would be out of business
- McDonald's and several other fast food restaurants would be out of business
- Bicycle shops would be doing unbelievably well, there'd be one at basically every corner
- There'd be showers everywhere for people to ride in to work and then still be smelling fresh once off their bikes
- Casinos would be out of business
- Television companies would go bankrupt
- Amazon would be minting money, even more so than today
- Nobody would use a single sheet of paper, for anything. All receipts would be e-mailed, and all payments would occur online
- We'd be beheading rapists like it was going out of style. Or hanging, honestly whichever is cheaper.
- The "mentally unstable" man who killed a police officer in Toronto with a snow plough would be in jail, for life, or better yet dead. A cop killer is a cop killer.
- Telephone companies would be unable to sell land line services.
- Major internet providers would be out of business, because I always buy from the little guy, and I buy the least amount of internet.
- Credit card companies would be out of business, because I pay my bills on time, every time.
- There would be a sushi restaurant at every corner, and they would all be engaged in fierce competition with one another.
- Tabloids and celebrity news media of any kind would cease to exist, wiped from the face of the earth. Paparazzi would thereby be gone
- Telemarketers would commit suicide, because every time they call I mess with them so much that, one time, a telemarketer actually called me back to curse me out and tell me he was going to send "The charges", which he obviously never did
- Denny's would be out of business. I'm a cereal and milk person. Having said that, waffle house's best-selling item would be their oatmeal.
- All expensive car companies, luxury watch companies, jewellers, and clothiers, would be out of business.
- Newspaper companies would go bankrupt.
- Best Buy would do half-decent sales, but nothing amazing. I don't even own a smartphone right now, my laptop's from 2004, and my secondary LCD monitor was bought off craigslist.
- Teachers would love their students, because I have always highly valued the education I have received, at all levels. I guess nobody goes broke there.
- Students would value their teachers, because it is apparently something I can do fairly well. Tutors would be broke.
- Unemployment money would stay with the government, who would supposedly put it to better use, because if I lost my license tomorrow, I would rather pick up trash on the side of the busiest, dirtiest downtown street in the country in the middle of winter in a snowstorm, than stand in the unemployment line and take money from my fellow countrymen for absolutely nothing. Taxes be damned, there's something to be said for pride in an honest day's work for an honest day's pay. Many will argue that I am entitled to that money since I have already contributed to the unemployment cheques of others. To that I say, there are many ways we may all choose to live our lives before we die. I would rather die never having been handed free money (other than that which I got from my parents to support my education, which I will pay back in vacations and summer cottages) than stand in the unemployment line so that I don't have to flip burgers.

That's all I can think of off the top of my head. I enjoy lengthening this list by decreasing my expenditures each year. Makes me feel dangerous in a very backward way. To think that, as a global society, human beings may one day have such solidarity to say "Starbucks has questionable business practices. Coffee is bad for you. This year, nobody buys coffee." Instantly, everybody gets it. By the end of the year, all the coffee shops are boarded up. That level of social power doesn't exist yet. People protest, but they don't boycott. Refusing to give someone your money is a very powerful form of social change, I would argue that it is the most powerful form because, at the end of the day, the only way in which a business would survive is money.

Make a list, and feel free to post it in the comments. Two questions:

1) If everyone were like you , who would go broke?

2) Where do you not want your money to go anymore? Who should be going broke?