Not spending on one day sends a message and that is the point, not to hurt them. You wanna hurt them? Don’t spend for a week. If covid shutdowns taught us anything its that disrupting capitalism for a week absolutely hurts them.

I don’t think it’s sad; some people really do need help understanding this. Protesting an oligarchy is new for most of us. You’ve just provided helpful information to people who can participate in this, especially those who can ONLY participate in this for one reason or another

All this disillusionment-posting about a one-day strike is reeking of pro-cap propaganda.

Just fuckin do it. Then do more. Start now, and stop expecting perfection from the get go

have to crawl before you can walk. it’s going to take all kinds of actions and events to make a noticeable difference and one size does not fit all problems/communities

Yeah one day ain’t doing shit.

I say this cause we will all just buy the shit next day or next week. I want this kind of stuff to work, but we need extended protests.

The billionaire class probably have enough resources to starve us all out of a general strike. The system ticks on in the meantime… Landlords expect rent, banks expect mortgage payments, interest accrues, etc.

I sincerely hope I am wrong, but I don’t think there’s a way to swat the system in the nose and in bring it around to working for regular people.

To cripple capitalism in the way that people seem to envision would require mass worker revolt; seizing assets and land, securing access to basic needs, military and communications operations. However, a prolonged revolt will only create a power vacuum, so it would also require a plan to implement reforms in a coordinated, cooperative, and sustainable manner.

people definitely spend less if they feel obligated to think about it a bit more

Most people don’t buy something everyday, but billions of dollars worth of stuff is bought everyday.

I do grocery shopping almost every day since I live a block from a store. I just get food for the day. So skipping one day is like they won’t get what, $10-20 from me? I don’t see how that will make any kind of impact either unfortunately. Really needs to be longer than a day. I’ll still do it because one day isn’t going to affect me at all so might as well, maybe I’m wrong and something will come of it

Yea, a single day of missed profits might make them give a statement, but they’re not going to change because of it.

We need to stop buying things from these people, period, across the board.

If it’s a chain/franchised, don’t give them your money.

Nobody has any idea and everyone is scrambling to organize but without any actual organization.

I don’t know… and I don’t buy stuff most days, already…

The essence of “vote with your wallet.”

One day is going to do exactly nothing. A year of shrinking revenue, though…

But that would be inconvenient. I’d rather just do my shopping a day early and not be impacted.

The bank when you stop spending the money (you’ve lent it to them now):

Edit: Replaced “borrowed” with “lent”

America is a whole shit show so we are trying to make the economy suffer big for a day so that the government might suck less