These "one day no purchase" things don't work. It takes sustained effort to "vote with your wallet".

Luigi may have found something they understand a tad better than dollars.

Even here there are so many replies that are "it won't matter, it doesn't hurt them enough". Cmon y'all, nothing will take them down in a single day. But when something out of the ordinary happens, like even a few percent drop for no apparent reason on one day, it's a small shock that makes predicting the future a bit trickier. Its also a signal that, hey guess what, the crowd of regular people CAN be organized about something without a rich person telling them what to do. Maybe we just need a critical mass to send small shocks through things. Call it an organized piece of performance art. Or testing the resiliency of financial networks. Just one time deals of "on this day everyone who can afford an Amazon basics robe should wait for my signal to either buy or not buy". Then you will have Amazon either scrambling to fulfill a huge order of robes, way more than baseline, or perhaps preparing for it only for it to turn out I flipped a tails that day and nobody is buying one and now they have a big stock of robes they won't be able to offload. They'll hate it purely because they can't plan for it with much certainty.

Biggest retail month is December. You want to piss off the corporations? Cancel the presents part of Christmas. Tell your kids its because of Trump. You're gonna raise them right, you're gonna hurt the corporations, your pockets will be heavier, you will feel bliss because you've let go of the materialistic mindset. Not gonna happen but its sweet to dream.

Honestly this is kind of a great plan. General strike is hard for people to swallow. But a general boycott??? Super easy. People can go to work, do whatever but buy 0 consumer goods. Extremely basic food, maybe even from local farmers. And completely ignore the mega corps. A motived effort could last for months and halt the economy

It ought to be stop buying things you don't absolutely need starting on the 28th.

Jokes on them, I am so broke these days I am barely buying shit anyway.

What's happening on FEbuary 28th? I'm sorry I'm out of the loop

Hmm the 28th isn't super convenient though. I think I'll do it on the 29th.

Saying it will work or not work are both equally stupid unless you provide some evidence for it.

Here's why it might work:

Modern economies are extremely fragile. The only reason amazon is able to provide same day delivery is because they can predict with reasonable certainty, what the demand will be.

Youtube or any big social media works by predicting what the usage will be.

We are just used to seeing how magically all the technologies work but at their roots, its all about predicting the future trends.

So if there is enough mass behind this movement to cause disruptions, it will hurt them. Even if it creates some noise, this will force them to increase fault tolerance.

So the real question everyone should be asking is this:

Will the inconvenience caused by not buying on 28th more than the potential for some damage?

join the general strike

But what's the objective here? Not buying stuff and boycotting for one day usually means you'll buy more in preparation before the boycott, or buy more after the boycott to make up for the deficit.

Do you one better: eating lunch at the restaurant run by immigrants.

I would like to see a cancel Amazon day too. We did it in November and have been saving one to two hundred dollars a month just spending a hour downtown buying our necessities. Plus we aren't indirectly financing Trump's election campaign anymore.

Will this have a huge impact? Almost certainly not. But Stephen King is always on the people's side. This isn't the first political post he's ever made.

might just be crazy enough to work, count me in

I've gotta spread the word, gotta hit em where it hurts.

Takes more than that; that's 1/365th of their value