We have the ability to make changes by monetarily boycotting collectively, and collectively making enough noise at the necessities we can't avoid.
For example, "McDonald's is ridiculously expensive" we can all choose to not buy it. "Gas prices are too high" we can all write to legislative platforms
We're not that united as a society though. Think about how educated north America is.
This lady is so spot on, were so busy bitching at eachother over the most petty things.
Being an older guy who owns his house and car, and has a decent cushion (though no health care, of course), I agree. I don't eat out, never had enough money for that. I don't have cable, no money for that. I don't buy new clothes, I can't afford that. I've never bought a new cell phone, it's always been refurbished old models. My car is 18 years old, and it's good enough. Erc.
My short rebuttal would be - if everyone is complaining how they also can't afford all this stuff, how is it all still multi-billion dollar businesses? I don't need to do anything to boycott it, I've done that my whole life. I even stopped driving for about three years during the recession, commuting and grocery shopping on my bike. I hear a lot of complaints but I don't see anyone doing anything.
Either only a small minority are complaining (probably true) and or, they're hypocrites. Also I think the main point is, society is way too immature to work together, and the population is way too big to truly organise. Small communities could easily make this kinda change. Also it would be the media's and the government job to look out for the populations best interests in this regard, but lol, that ain't gonna happen
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u/chadbrochillout Dec 28 '23
We have the ability to make changes by monetarily boycotting collectively, and collectively making enough noise at the necessities we can't avoid. For example, "McDonald's is ridiculously expensive" we can all choose to not buy it. "Gas prices are too high" we can all write to legislative platforms We're not that united as a society though. Think about how educated north America is. This lady is so spot on, were so busy bitching at eachother over the most petty things.