The Daily Populous Friday February 28th, 2025 evening edition
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Pinche-gueyprotein on February 28th, 2025 at 15:01 UTC »

I contribute to this 100% by not being able to consume today anyways because I have a lack of funds.

tendonut on February 28th, 2025 at 15:11 UTC »

"Buy it all tomorrow instead so retailers won't even notice the blip on their quarterly earnings report"

stumblewiggins on February 28th, 2025 at 15:34 UTC »

If enough people do this, it makes a point. Does it accomplish anything significant? Probably not. But it's a low-effort, low-risk demonstration of dissatisfaction if the point gets made (for the record, I doubt it does).

What would really be effective is to specifically target things like:

Black Friday Cyber Monday Holiday shopping in general Summer road trips.

Instead of some arbitrary day when people don't spend anything, pick times that the corporations are expecting large amounts of revenue, and undercut that as much as possible.

Short of cutting all non-essential spending for an extended period of time, that's how you make this point more effectively.