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Wouldn't a buycot make more sense? Companies losing business will just blame it on the economy. Companies performing better than their competitors would be most likely to make the correlation.
It will hurt them regardless of where they try to shift the blame. Their share prices will still drop if their earnings miss expectations.
But medium to long term you're right, and specifically people should be buying from local and small businesses as much as possible. Not just for holidays but in general. No corporations are our friends. The economy needs a rebalancing toward localism. Corporations have captured our political system. Aside from regulation and strong antitrust, our best weapon against them as consumers is to deny them our money. One of their weaknesses is that the market demands perpetual growth. Deny them that growth and feed it to small/medium-sized business and their grip on us will begin to loosen.
Of course that requires sustained mass action, not one-off boycotts, but individual choices add up to something real over time.
The ol' ostracize as many customer demographics as possible strategy. Bold, let's see how it works out for em.
If we stopped spending and went on a "hunger" strike. Don't buy anything for a month. Only buy necessities food for children, the elderly, pets. And simply not buy more than that the corporations would fold over easy. We would add more stress if we stopped going to work at the same time. But what do I know?
this is my plan as well. my actual vote doesn't seem to matter since neither party gives a shit about the working class, so im voting with my wallet.
You say that like people aren't already starting to do that, out of necessity.
Love an organized boycott!
It’s a good start but I also think it needs to go past the holiday season to get the point across that we will not shop or use there services again.
Why do we have to toe the line while all the Democrats representing us roll over?
Boycotting pro-regime companies is not toeing the line.
Because your Democratic party is right-wing.