Just some additional advertising for todays boycott.

  • Krauerking@lemy.lol
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    10 days ago

    Hey, did you know that half of all day to day retail spending is done by the economically top 10% of the US population.
    These are people who for the most part don’t care about economic hardships of the lower classes and have closer to 65% of the liquid assets.

    They already under spend for their wealth and likely also won’t care about this. And will spend or not and make no impact.

    Not to be negative, but to be realistic.
    This is pointless.
    Like literally without a point or purpose but to “show those business we mean business” and that isn’t an actual point and they don’t care about a 1 day shopping freeze.

    The reach on this with it already being the day of the protest is already a major hinderance to any progress hoped to be achieved and then we still don’t have a point.

    Honestly we need to be deciding what change we actually want to have occur and start steering the ship that way little action at a time as possible but instead let’s just keep trying to make 1 day events a thing with the shock the wealthy see of us standing together enough to make them see the light of God and turn around and change for us. I’m sure that will eventually work even though it never has.

    • HubertManne@moist.catsweat.comOP
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      10 days ago

      I disagree. Your post is long but boils down to “I don’t think it will work.” Im fine if you choose to do it to humor us and would appreciate it.

      • Nougat@fedia.io
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        10 days ago

        It’s “I don’t think it will work immediately, for my specific goals.

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            10 days ago

            @HubertManne@moist.catsweat.com said:

            Your post is long but boils down to “I don’t think it will work.”

            My comment was an indication of what I think your post boils down to.

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      9 days ago

      As someone comfortably in that top 10% and unfathomably infinitely outside the billionaire club, I hope you know I’m on your side, and I do care.

      Annecdotaly, the majority of my peers are as well.

      Our complacency is a huge part of the problem.

      But for what it’s worth, we’re increasingly waking up to the fact that we’re also quite fucked by what the billionaires are up to, in the long run.