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.
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.
All efforts, great and small.
My point is that I literally will be putting in zero effort and buying on my normal days because that’s all I can afford to do. You’re asking people to make a choice and for some of us there is no real choice. When I buy groceries is determined by my payday WAY THE HELL MORE than any ideology.
Not every action is appropriate for every person. This doesn’t mean that actions that aren’t appropriate for you shouldn’t be taken by anyone.
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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.
“Your local Luigi”, I love this expression!
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.
Jokes on them, I am so broke these days I am barely buying shit anyway.
What’s happening on FEbuary 28th? I’m sorry I’m out of the loop
It’s non-consumerism day
Ah good to know, Yugioh Early Days drops that day and I was planning on buying it day one (Because aint nobody got time to wait 40 minutes for the opponent to win on his first turn) now, I will not
I salute your dedication to the cause. (Not sarcasm)
We all want a version of Yugioh that doesn’t cost literal thousands of real world dollars to get decent cards for in a format that isn’t “Waiting 40 minutes for your opponent to play Solitaire until he finishes Special Summoning five of his overpriced boss monsters”
I’ve waited years for such a thing, I can wait one more day.
This is painfully accurate, And I don’t even play any of those card games.
I feel like Konami and I both want it to be like the show, but that means different things to both parties.
I think it means, a battle of wits in which ultimately two parties are summoning stronger and stronger monsters trying to one up the other in the course of a duel while throwing curve balls via Spell or Traps, maybe even an Effect monster or two.
And Konami thinks it means “Every card printed after 2006 needs to be the most gimmicky bullshit you’ve ever seen and do such absurd things that it would and literally does have entire paragraphs printed on the smallest text ever on each card just to go on and on about how horribly this warps the rules of the game, and the further you go, the more absurdly broken these cards get to the point where insane moon logic is at play more than anything else.”
So I want Battle City and Konami wants Duelist Kingdom, which is ironic because Battle City comes after Duelist Kingdom
Seriously I tried playing Master Duel and had to surrender because I literally got a headache trying to remember what all of my cards did.
Remember when most of your monsters were just Attack/Defend goons who just had flavor text whereas a few here and there might have some small effect? Good times… I’m not even sure Non-Effect monsters exist anymore.
My son taught me to play MTG once. Super basic cards, nothing crazy. Not only could I not keep up with what my cards did, all of the “this effect is in play, but except not this card, because of this other effect, and then there’s a couple other effects going on, too.” I couldn’t be made to care enough to figure that out every time.
You might pre-order and just get the download that day. Or cartridge in the mail or whatever, I don’t know what device the game is released for.
Then stock up on food the day before and lock yourself in ;-)
Steam
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.
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.
All efforts, great and small.
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“Why are you putting a single shovel of dirt into a sandbag, that’s not going to do anything against this flood.”
Don’t gatekeep resistance. Today’s boycotter can become tomorrow’s marcher, next week’s smuggler, next month’s partisan.
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Do you one better: eating lunch at the restaurant run by immigrants.
I’ve gotta spread the word, gotta hit em where it hurts.
What is Feb 28th? The end of black history month?
Look like some sort of boycott/economic blackout event.
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.
might just be crazy enough to work, count me in
Takes more than that; that’s 1/365th of their value
“These dick” being “the set of people who produce goods and services for sale”?
no, the oligarchs who own the factories and stores
I doubt they’ll even notice the blip one lost day will do to their wealth
good point, do nothing at all
Are those the only two options? Cause I’m doing plenty, I don’t know what the rest of you are up to
Why don’t you share what you’re doing so others might be able to join?
Currently organizing meet and greets at retirement homes for our only progressive left candidate, then arranging for voting stations to be accessible and nearby to those residents. That’s not even mentioning the less than legal things you can do to send a big fuck you to billionaires and any politician who support them.
If you wanna hit corporations directly, I’m not gonna spell out any number of things you can do to sabotage them and cost them money.
Thank you.
I appreciate you replying as I think we should always be trying to educate others on things they can do to try and make a difference as at times it feels like you really can’t do anything.
sounds like you’re only spreading FUD
work in retail, we pull close to 200k a day in sales on a single day in a small town
