Karen D 🇨🇦Please consider boosting.
David Scott Moyer@KarenDorman Nah. Every single business knows that you will still spend the money you would have spent that day, just at a later date. They don't care. Now if you want to stop buying from large corporate entities permanently, that's another thing. Stopping for one day is just masturbation.
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Then you might consider to support it as a way to encourage the participants. So they continue to learn and become better activists.
Then you might consider to support it as a way to encourage the participants. So they continue to learn and become better activists.
Stuck HereAgreed. When gas prices at the pump were insanely high social media pushed for a one day boycott. Such a thing would not and did not bring down prices.
BUT, a one day shopping boycott would send a strong message to the big retailers. It wouldn't lower prices. It would rattle cages. It would be the start of the public spending their money elsewhere and decreasing their spending overall. It could be a signal a public willing to make changes.
@MyWoolyMastadon @KarenDorman Buy Nothing Day happens every year. Show me evidence that it has ever achieved a single thing. Economics 101 tells you that the only thing that brings down prices and changes behavior is an actual change in demand. Delaying demand for a day does nothing. What we need is to elect officials who strengthen and enforce monopoly laws. Of course, that requires paying attention and voting, which half of America appears incapable of.
Agreed with what you say. One day doesn't change the financials.
It does start a conversation.
If a person is inclined, one day will make them think about where they spend their money. If we're lucky that one day can make them consider who they cast their vote for in the future.
One day isn't much. In the scheme of a year it's nothing.
But one day and others strung out behind it can spark a change that hopefully sticks.
Besides, stupid and futile gestures done with passion are some of the stuff that makes for great legends.