Either way, this boycott isn’t really targeted and thus probably won’t be felt. But I will still support / participate. I don’t see why the messaging is so inconsistent (buy nothing vs. it’s ok to buy from small businesses)
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Agreed, but for most people, there is a measurable difference in supporting businesses that don’t siphon money out of your community, suppress wages, and turn everything into a Dollar General. Also encouraging offline people to think about their relationships to goods and labor is a net positive.
The only reason I saw anything about it was someone said something about not crediting the artist who made a flyer (a flyer that I had not seen anywhere until then) lol
it’s not targeted and from what i can tell it has no clear demands and will only last 24 hours. My concern is a bunch of libs will participate for the first time, feel good for a sec, and then see nothing happen as a result and check out for another year
and everyone arguing “at least it’s something” are the same people who have been setting incremental goalposts for decades which is exactly how we ended up with fascism
this is the problem with liberalism. they have no response to fascism. they refuse to identify capitalism as the problem or do anything to stop fascists that would in any way have real political impact on the ruling elite
The “small business” propaganda of this country is wiiiiiiild, they were one of the first classes to join the ranks of the Nazi party as it gained power lol
How does someone even think about talking about this kind of thing publicly with an authoritative voice and be completely ignorant of who actual capitalists are & the difference between a capitalist and being self employed? It's wild. Of course we boycott small businesses. Why wouldn't we? 🙃
A lot of people either don't know what small businesses are or think that they're immune to criticism because they're not a mega-corp. Just because you're not a major chain doesn't mean that 24$ for a mediocre burger meal isn't expensive as hell
That’s the whole problem, the term small business is practically meaningless because any business with fewer than like 500 employees is considered “small.” In my mind a real small business is like my buddy’s comic book shop, he’s got three employees and they all own a piece of the store.
people don’t understand that “small business” means a pretty big business, and at most a random doing commissions is a micro-biz. ppl also seemingly don’t understand that they are more than just consumers, and can voice dissatisfaction any number of ways other than simply not buying shit for a day.
They told people to drop the word freelancer and pretend to own capital and 90% of for hire creatives took the deal and started siding with their own bosses lol
Like we had a language for this not even 15 years ago a graphic designer going contract to contract never used to think of themselves as a mom and pop corporation because thats insane
If they understood the relationships between labour and capital (like with small and big biz) and they wanted to affect bottom lines then they would end up at the better protest of withholding their labour en mass.
I’m already not buying anything today just because I only buy stuff maybe once a month realistically. Sticking it to the man by going to Costco occasionally
Today is an exercise in participation not because "it's going to work" but because we should all get used to jumping in and acting collectively. The instruction was simple and clear: to buy NOTHING. Small business owners have sway in the chamber of commerce and shit. They need to feel these events.
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I don't know if it's an issue with my bubble or the messaging for the boycott.
god it's so frustrating
Shopping protest is ok tho.
but that grace will be very short lived if/when they become insufferably smug about not shopping for one day
Chapter 2: cleaning up a rive cake mess, the most socialist thing a person can do
it's just one attempt at group demonstration that we're pissed off enough to take a collective action.
Minimum wage raises? What will happen to Mr Jim’s cornerstore?