Stephen King supporting the movement
Stephen King supporting the movement
These "one day no purchase" things don't work. It takes sustained effort to "vote with your wallet".
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People are organizingI'm specifically talking about the one day economic blackout.
These have been done dozens of times over dozens of issues and have had zero impact ever. A one-day blackout won't do shit except give the Ralph Wiggums of the world that "I'm helping!" feeling. If you want them to feel it it has to be longer-term. A week. A month. A year. And that's sadly, something that people in a consumerist culture lack the stamina to do.
Do it anyway.
Luigi may have found something they understand a tad better than dollars.
How are there so many people in the US with guns shooting at each other and poorer people, but not the rich? It's like they literally live in "Don't Look Up".
I've said this before, as a Canadian I am dumbfounded that no one has picked up a gun or even just walked up and punched someone in the face. It actually makes me fear a lot less the looming trade and water wars with America. Y'all are fucking pussies and just lay down at the first sign of confrontation.
All hail hero Luigi!
Even here there are so many replies that are "it won't matter, it doesn't hurt them enough". Cmon y'all, nothing will take them down in a single day. But when something out of the ordinary happens, like even a few percent drop for no apparent reason on one day, it's a small shock that makes predicting the future a bit trickier. Its also a signal that, hey guess what, the crowd of regular people CAN be organized about something without a rich person telling them what to do. Maybe we just need a critical mass to send small shocks through things. Call it an organized piece of performance art. Or testing the resiliency of financial networks. Just one time deals of "on this day everyone who can afford an Amazon basics robe should wait for my signal to either buy or not buy". Then you will have Amazon either scrambling to fulfill a huge order of robes, way more than baseline, or perhaps preparing for it only for it to turn out I flipped a tails that day and nobody is buying one and now they have a big stock of robes they won't be able to offload. They'll hate it purely because they can't plan for it with much certainty.
Biggest retail month is December. You want to piss off the corporations? Cancel the presents part of Christmas. Tell your kids its because of Trump. You're gonna raise them right, you're gonna hurt the corporations, your pockets will be heavier, you will feel bliss because you've let go of the materialistic mindset. Not gonna happen but its sweet to dream.
Theres a saying that goes: the best time to do that thing is yesterday, the second best is now.
No no, we did it. But only kinda. We do one big gift and that's it. Last year it was recycled laptops for the kids. Cost me $125 and it's been their best Christmas.
Honestly this is kind of a great plan. General strike is hard for people to swallow. But a general boycott??? Super easy. People can go to work, do whatever but buy 0 consumer goods. Extremely basic food, maybe even from local farmers. And completely ignore the mega corps. A motived effort could last for months and halt the economy
I buy my groceries every two weeks when I get paid. I don't get paid that week. I won't be buying anything anyways. And even if I did participate, I'd just buy stuff the next day and it would balance out. I'm not sure how this actually does anything. In the grand scheme of averages, this seems like barely a blip tbh.
You're exactly right. A one day boycott doesn't work. For it to work your need to have a day when you don't consume anything. But even then, that isn't feasible.
Cancel your subscriptions, and don't start them up again.
Divest your 401k from US money markets.
Get involved in your local government and start focusing on ways that your community can provide local services.
If you know where a morally corrupt CEO is going to be staying, let your local Luigi know.
These aren't easy things, but they can be effective.
This is a lot more feasible. People can lose a lot striking from work but striking from consumption is much more manageable. Where the way to participate is NOT to do something, whole lot easier too.
It ought to be stop buying things you don't absolutely need starting on the 28th.
Dude......I've been doing that since.......always. Hell, I don't even buy the things I DO need!!!
I’m already checking out of buying things. Yeah I get what I need but I’m cutting all bunch of non essentials
The idea is to buy the essentials on other days if possible too. It won't have a major impact for the corporations in the long term, but if it works it might force at least some minor conceptions to appease the more scaridy shareholders (let's not delude ourselves that management boards care about customers or a single bad revenue day).
The cynic in me thinks this can easily backfire if Amazon and Walmart decide to announce black friday level discounts on that day .
Jokes on them, I am so broke these days I am barely buying shit anyway.
Just stop buying from large corporations, only buy from your local neighborhood super, etc, and do it ALWAYS.
If I'm very generous and say that 50% of the population will not buy anything on that day, sales would be down by 50% for a single day, something that will barely register, if at all
If those same people just stop buying from home Depot, stop buying Tesla, stop buying at Walmart, etc. that will be noticed. Probably a law will be enacted requiring people to buy at Walmart for patriotism or something stupid like that, but at least it'll be noticed
I will go into my local wal-mart and say the word union so it gets shut down.
Hmm the 28th isn't super convenient though. I think I'll do it on the 29th.
Saying it will work or not work are both equally stupid unless you provide some evidence for it.
Here's why it might work:
Modern economies are extremely fragile. The only reason amazon is able to provide same day delivery is because they can predict with reasonable certainty, what the demand will be.
Youtube or any big social media works by predicting what the usage will be.
We are just used to seeing how magically all the technologies work but at their roots, its all about predicting the future trends.
So if there is enough mass behind this movement to cause disruptions, it will hurt them. Even if it creates some noise, this will force them to increase fault tolerance.
So the real question everyone should be asking is this:
Will the inconvenience caused by not buying on 28th more than the potential for some damage?
Woudn't it be better to target more focused for a longer duration? Don't buy anything from Amazon for 3 months.
I get your point, but a day is a rounding error. A day is "oh it snowed so no one went out". That's normal enough that I just don't see how a single day will amount to much. People will either buy ahead of time or right after. They won't forgo their purchases, just delay them at best.
Do you one better: eating lunch at the restaurant run by immigrants.
I would like to see a cancel Amazon day too. We did it in November and have been saving one to two hundred dollars a month just spending a hour downtown buying our necessities. Plus we aren't indirectly financing Trump's election campaign anymore.
Will this have a huge impact? Almost certainly not. But Stephen King is always on the people's side. This isn't the first political post he's ever made.
Yeah, I agree. The only thing that matters is when things have huge impact. Change happens immediately and never in small increments. It's worthless to make people aware of how they can be part of the solution. That's just messing with hope.
Edit: Really should've added the /s
Takes more than that; that's 1/365th of their value
What is Feb 28th? The end of black history month?
Look like some sort of boycott/economic blackout event.
might just be crazy enough to work, count me in
They also understand violence. Moreso, actually.
What you all need to do is a no rent month atleast twice a year
Too broke to boycott. So I boycott everything, every day. Is it working yet?
Its not about the individual. Its about the collective effort
Canadian here, we're in on it as well... have it posted on my profile 👍💪
I don't buy anything on most Fridays though. What difference could this possibly make? Most weeks I don't really buy anything other than essentials like food.
Ok, maybe a couple gallons of apple juice to make my own scrumpy isn't essential. But is not buying that really going to make a difference?
You not buying something won't make a difference. You and a million people like you not buying anything might.
I already don't get a birthday this year, I can't even celebrate my nonbirthday?
I mean I already wasn't going to buy anything that day probably. It's not my grocery day. I basically spend no money other than groceries bills and rent anyway.
This means you need to anti-buy instead.
I’m really sorry guys but that’s when monster hunter comes out