Going off the assumption there aren’t any bad actors at play, these seem like a good approach and I’d gladly participate.
Only thing I’d question is a 24 hour economic blackout. The striking part is impactful, but putting off buying a TV for one day is negligible. Hell, you probably already paid for a full month of Netflix already.
I’d prefer a stronger commitment to progressively tightening the noose. Ramp up the economic pressure indefinitely until demands are met, you won’t die from not spending money.
Yeah, you’re not wrong. I absolutely think that having one day where every restaurant was empty, every Wal-Mart had 2 shoppers in it, all the balance sheets went down to single digits for a single sustained interval of time, would make an impact. Even if it gets made up for over the rest of the week because people still need to buy stuff. But, that being said… it’s something. You have to talk before you can yell, you have to yell before you start pushing. I do get the concept of it and I think trying is a good idea.
Personally, I hate to be a Debbie Downer, but I do think the sum total amount of not-buying that happens that day is not going to produce an impact like that. I would like it to, but I think realistically, there’s enough of a stranglehold on our media that it’ll be difficult to have it go above 1% of 0.1% of the people. I definitely plan to be part of that 1% though. Sometimes you have to play it out in your head a little bit, before you can talk. You have to start somewhere.
Yeah, and there’s already people who keep consumption to a minimum. And I also hate being a downer but I think some of those are pretty big asks. People won’t call out of work, they just won’t. Not in a large enough number to make it matter.
But not spending any money? That could seriously take off. Just for a day? Not do something that has no negative consequences? Get everyone together doing something. Doesn’t matter much what, just that it’s a collective thing.
Maybe leave local restaurants/businesses alone? Idk. It just seems like that’s an idea where people have less to do and a lot less to lose to participate so it could take off.
Going off the assumption there aren’t any bad actors at play, these seem like a good approach and I’d gladly participate.
Only thing I’d question is a 24 hour economic blackout. The striking part is impactful, but putting off buying a TV for one day is negligible. Hell, you probably already paid for a full month of Netflix already.
I’d prefer a stronger commitment to progressively tightening the noose. Ramp up the economic pressure indefinitely until demands are met, you won’t die from not spending money.
Yeah, you’re not wrong. I absolutely think that having one day where every restaurant was empty, every Wal-Mart had 2 shoppers in it, all the balance sheets went down to single digits for a single sustained interval of time, would make an impact. Even if it gets made up for over the rest of the week because people still need to buy stuff. But, that being said… it’s something. You have to talk before you can yell, you have to yell before you start pushing. I do get the concept of it and I think trying is a good idea.
Personally, I hate to be a Debbie Downer, but I do think the sum total amount of not-buying that happens that day is not going to produce an impact like that. I would like it to, but I think realistically, there’s enough of a stranglehold on our media that it’ll be difficult to have it go above 1% of 0.1% of the people. I definitely plan to be part of that 1% though. Sometimes you have to play it out in your head a little bit, before you can talk. You have to start somewhere.
Yeah, and there’s already people who keep consumption to a minimum. And I also hate being a downer but I think some of those are pretty big asks. People won’t call out of work, they just won’t. Not in a large enough number to make it matter.
But not spending any money? That could seriously take off. Just for a day? Not do something that has no negative consequences? Get everyone together doing something. Doesn’t matter much what, just that it’s a collective thing.
Maybe leave local restaurants/businesses alone? Idk. It just seems like that’s an idea where people have less to do and a lot less to lose to participate so it could take off.