What's the point in Boycotting? : Anticonsumption

Obviously this is a conspiracy to keep people shopping at walmart instead the readily abundant locally owned markets.

find me a small business owner that supports raising the minimum wage, find me one that supports unions, find me one that supports working class issues.

they do not share our interests. and you're not gonna overcome the evils of capitalism by supporting small businesses.

The point is to spend less so you can afford small business goods. Unfortunately some of us have buying addictions.

I don't know if that's my point. Spending less is valid but no one gets to tell me that I have to spend my money at a small business especially a business who expects me to give them my money.

Some small businesses are run poorly or by terrible people. (And in fact, I'd say it's more than some) They are no more necessary as a baker than any large cake company because all cake is a luxury. Anyone watching your money and complaining that they want you to give it to them do not have your interest at heart.

So you'd rather give your money to a huge corporation? Sometimes I feel like Reddit is astroturfed with all these anti-small-business people around.

This is why people call us amerifats. We can't go without garbage low quality mass produced crap even for a moment. Cake is literally a luxury

What makes cake a luxury

they've made American life so miserable that people are like I'm not giving up my little treats because that's all we have anymore it's beyond fricked up

Meanwhile everyone in Canada is boycotting everything American and it's working