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Talk of a "Feb 28 Economic Blackout" is spreading on social media. What is it?
A social media phenomenon where people don't shop on Amazon for a day, then spend the next day acting as if they single-handedly stormed the beaches of Normandy while being on Amazon and ordering everything they were going to order the day before. Somewhere, a random bean counter is mildly inconvenienced for about 5 minutes while making minor adjustments to a month-over-month P&L statement to account for this while the rest of business goes on as normal.
These protests accomplish nothing. Corporations know that at most, people just end up pushing off their purchases by a day or two, and know that these events can simply be ignored, and everybody in both the corporate and government world knows that the vast majority of people aren't in a position where they can keep up this kind of protest for more than a day or so even if they wanted to, let alone have the willpower to do it. It would be mostly a symbolic gesture that everybody involves knows can be waited out.
It's the adult equivalent of "I'm going to hold my breath!". That's nice, kid. You've gotta breathe eventually. If you're not willing to all but cut yourself off from society, put your own job at risk, etc. for a prolonged period of time, this will accomplish nothing but giving yourself a huge dose of copium. And most people are neither willing nor able to do that.
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