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this post was submitted on 28 Feb 2025
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why not boycott all major corporations every day? it does require a bit of work, but the more money you spend locally, the better your local communities will be
That's just not how our economy works. "Local" business is not making toilet paper from trees they cut down in their backyard.
I'm probably getting downvoted for this but I hate hate hate this "consumption is power" bull shit boycotts. Consumption is NOT power. LABOR is power. If you work at these large companies you have a million times more power and influence by organizing.
Boycott today if it makes you feel good. But it's so incredibly missing of the point that I have to assume it is purposely missing the point of collective power.
Your power is in your ability to withhold labor. Not withholding consumption for one day that you'll just buy the next day. Hell, if these planned organized single day boycotts, if they actually had an impact, would be a way to maximize profits to reduce labor requirements for those days. It's so silly.
Organize your workplace. That is where your power is!
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Im guessing many folks or at least more than the usual percent on the fediverse do this to some degree. I have seen other comments about it and have done them myself. Its really not to much work to me but its a continuing thing. Regularly thinking about what else you can cut out or if you think you can finally cut out a particular thing. So im not where I would want to be and im past low hanging fruit and it will be slow going forward of where I am not but I will continue.
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Hahaha this boycott was Dead on arrival
"One day boycott with no terms or conditions, that'll show em!"
I mean, I'll still do it because why not? It's easy (which is part of the issue), but like...this will do nothing.
The way I see it, you have to start small before you can go big. Get people used to the idea so when you call for a general strike later, it doesn’t seem totally outlandish.
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IMHO we should have it every Friday or Every 28th or something like that.
Let me know how that turns out.
My wife has a tattoo booked today and I just went out to the local mom&pop farm store and bought some chicken food.
AWTA?
Both those are fine to me. I mean at least most tatoo shops are places where you talk and know your tatooist and the owner that I have experience with. Might be great to know they avoided buying stuff today so I would talk it up. Same with mom and pop stores. This is about corporations. I would feel fine dining out at a restaurant where I know the owners and how they operate.