Black Friday isnāt a holiday, itās a heist. A glittery, discount-code-waving distraction where billionaires convince you that buying a $12 toaster you donāt need is a victory.
Spoiler: The only people winning are the ones who already have more money than God.
Jeff Bezos doesnāt need your $12. But the local bookstore? Your favorite indie artist? The weird little shop down the street that sells handmade candles that smell like a vacation in Scandinavia? They do.
Every dollar you spend at a corporate monolith is a dollar extracted from your community. Itās a vote for a world where Main Street looks like a ghost town and your social media feed is just ads instead of fun.
But every dollar you spend at a small business? Thatās a dollar going toward someoneās rent. For the baristaās poetry habit or the cartoonistās art supply. Itās a dollar that says, "Iād rather live in a world where people thrive than where billionaires buy themselves another yacht."
This Black Friday, skip the algorithmic ādeals.ā Instead, buy the zine from that artist youāve been meaning to support. Grab a book from the shop with the creaky floorboards. Get the weird, wonderful thing you didnāt know you needed from the Etsy seller who hand-paints each one.
Because the trick that billionaires really hate is: You donāt have to play their game. Your money is your power.
If you decide to get something from our store, use Wapsy-Friday-20 to get 20% off
https://warandpeas.shop
@warandpeas Thanks for reminding me about your store!
I ended up searching for minutes to find my patreon code, which in retrospect is less discount than the one you shared here.
No regrets :)
Best advice on buying local is to not let the perfect be the enemy of the good. If you just shift some percentage of your purchasing to local, that's a positive change.
Use local bookstores. Perhaps kitchen products? Hardware stores. Sports equipment and clothing. Tackle the easy ones first.
If it costs 10% more than at the big box store consider it a donation to your community.
@TommyTorty10 @SiteRelEnby Ditto here, although maybe not surprising due to being a rural island nation of merely 85000 population.
But the same still applies: buy local when you can. The more local, the better.
Ace and True Value stores are locally owned.
Yes, Ace corporate is not great, but this is kind of part of the 'perfect enemy of the good.' Ace stores are mostly owned locally and a much better alternative to Home Depot.
@warandpeas there are no ads on Mastodon. Itās why we are all here.
Adopt donāt shop.
Buy local.
Recycle.
And be kind and rewind.
@warandpeas I could not agree more with you.
Another benefit is that the price of the thing is more likely to be a realistic one and will fairly compensate those that manufactured/created the thing, and not ripping them off so an item can be cheap in a box store or on Amazon.
@warandpeas āa dollar going toward someoneās rentā
in my town, thatās the problem. We have mostly locally-owned stores on our main street, but there is quite a bit of turnover because rent is so expensive.
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