Just some additional advertising for todays boycott.
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That an corporations don't care about their daily numbers unless they are trending. Like, people won't buy stuff today, so they will just go buy the stuff tomorrow. Monthly and quarterly profits took no hit.
Businesses tend to notice trends during economic upswings/downturns. To date, consumer spending has been steadily rising in no small part thanks to upward pressure on wages and inflationary pressure on prices. If we're entering a recessionary spiral, you won't need to have a "No Spending Day". People will reflexively cut their spending when they lose their income.
Something like this might have more teeth if it was paired with protest marches or sit-ins or other actions intended to signal that prices had run away from incomes. But that doesn't seem to be the message this meme is sending. Nobody is getting encouraged to stand outside a Target and wave a big sign that says "Stop Bird Flu! Make Eggs Cheap Again!" or picketing an Amazon Warehouse over low wages and long hours.
Fully agree. While I wholeheartedly support the intent of this protest, it is entirely performative for the sake of the participants, not for the sake of actually affecting change.
Honest question, what is an accessible first step for a population that has basically never performed any collective action that isn't performative?
Is standing outside a local government building holding a sign to protest federal policy affecting change?
In my view, at least this one day action has a marginal economic impact. Holding a sign on your lunch break so you can post some pictures to Instagram is way more performative.
But it doesn't have marginal impact. It has zero impact. Whether you spend money on Thursday or Friday, the bottom line is the same. We are starting from the false premise that this has any impact, when the smallest amount of critical thought renders that false immediately.
Yes, get the hell out and stand in front of government offices with signs. Make noise. Be seen. Do anything other than pretending keeping your items in your shopping cart for one additional day has any impact.
That's completely backwards. It costs elected officials and our corporate overlords LITERALLY nothing to ignore your protest. It's bad PR at best. Even then, manipulating news coverage, headlines and soundbites is second nature to these people.
How long would an economic strike have to be for it to have an impact you won't handwave away? There could be prepped food on shelves today that gets thrown out tomorrow. Do it over a weekend and no tickets get sold to a show. Do it for a week and logistics starts getting fucked up.
Standing around and making noise without any other change to your lifestyle or attempting to organize your efforts is completely hollow. Not to mention, infinitely less accessible to people who can't afford the time or don't have the physical ability to attend.
Yes, change the entire nature and scope of the protest and it might be impactful, I agree with you.
....do you think people are still primarily buying event tickets from in-person box offices same day?
The point is that it has an impact that you're arbitrarily ignoring. If you scale your sign holding and chanting up to 3 million people in a state capital then it might be impactful as well.
The key here is which of these is a more accessible and reasonable thing to ask people to do as a first action? Is it easier to organize 3 protests of 50,000 people in a month or have 500,000 cut their spending in half for a month?
But this continues to ignore the entire crux of the argument - if you're supposed to give me $100 on Wednesday but don't give it to me until Thursday, by Friday I'm still holding $100. Period. End of discussion.
I don't know why we keep pretending there is more to this. There isn't.
Again, my argument isn't that scale and scope don't exist, it continues to be that any number times zero is still zero. Period. You are being led astray into feeling impactful so as to dissuade you from meaningful impact. This isn't harmless, and this isn't without intention.
When politicians see you gathered outside their offices, you're right, they can absolutely close the blinds and ignore you. But at least they understand you care enough to make a stand and they have to put in the intentional effort to ignore it. When the powers that be see shit like this first off they don't even have to ignore it because it's literally nothing and will resolve itself in the books literally in the same week. They don't see people who care enough to take a stand, they seem people who wanted to participate in a trend.
My brother in Christ it's the exact same thing with any protest that isn't en masse or an extended occupied disruption. My original question was "do you have any better ideas" and you clearly don't. Why take the time to shit on it?
Edit: also not having $100 for multiple days is an actual impact that you're ignoring. If you've got a bill due on one of those days you might be on trouble
Literally any action is better, and again, just because an idea has good intention doesn't make it beyond criticism. Acknowledging and discussing the reality isn't "shitting on" something, and the suggestion that it is is driving towards ignorance that benefits noone.
Furthermore, I don't need to know how to repair a roof to identify a leak. Instead of trying to fight my suggestion that this is meaningless, why don't you try instead to prove with any kind of verifiable reasoning or evidence that this protest will be impactful. Give me some kind of source that supports this idea that doesn't fall down to "I think" or "it might."
You guys are the ones making the claim here - that this protest is viable. Fucking back it up.
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I've walked you through it multiple times and you just choose to ignore it. If 300 million Americans did this for one day there would be an economic shockwave, businesses don't budget around NOT HAVING REVENUE. Even IF they make up the difference later.
Next time I'm a day late on rent, I'll just tell my landlord me having money tomorrow is just as good as today. I'm sure he'll accept that as payment.
So then is your argument it won't be widespread enough to have an impact? Because that's not the criticism you're offering, you're completely dismissing it.
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Show me the impact. Give me examples of comparable protests and show me the real world verifiable and measurable impact which they have resulted in.
My argument is that the scope and scale of this protest renders it moot. These are real factors.
And paying your monthly rent with established due dates is non-comparable to additional discretionary spending which is tracked in market quarters. Not to mention the fact that tons of us have had to give our landlords rent checks late tons of time before and the overall impact is the goddamn same.
So again, show me the relevant example of comparable impact and I'll concede. Otherwise, I'm going to keep rightly telling you that your performative protest is about your own feelings rather than any actual impact.
Gotta start somewhere with people. The point is that anyone can do this, and it's easy to do, but it isn't really any more difficult to show up to a town hall. And while yes, you and I can (and probably do) take larger, more effective steps, longer boycotts, etc. We need numbers, and that, I think, is the real value of this.
A million times zero is still zero. We gain nothing by entirely performative action. Start somewhere, but make it somewhere meaningful.
Organize something better and shut tf up or just shut tf up. You’re just as bad as them with your piss poor attitude towards people that are at least trying to do something whether it complies with your own personal standards you fail to deliver on yourself, if you weren’t your own biggest failure you would be presenting your initiative piggybacking on this one instead of trying to downplay others.
No thank you. I'm going to instead continue to rally against treating adults like coddled children and placating them in ways which dis-motivate them from actual collective action by convincing them that they're already doing collective action. And I'm going to keep criticism bad ideas because good intention alone is not enough. I don't give a shit about making people feel good or participating in the latest fun leftist trend, I care about meaningful impact.
Feel free to block me if your find your feathers unable to be unruffled.