• maccam912@programming.dev
    32·
    6 days ago

    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.

    • jmcs@discuss.tchncs.de
      4·
      6 days ago

      The idea is to buy the essentials on other days if possible too. It won’t have a major impact for the corporations in the long term, but if it works it might force at least some minor conceptions to appease the more scaridy shareholders (let’s not delude ourselves that management boards care about customers or a single bad revenue day).

      The cynic in me thinks this can easily backfire if Amazon and Walmart decide to announce black friday level discounts on that day .

  • Phoenixz@lemmy.ca
    8·
    5 days ago

    Just stop buying from large corporations, only buy from your local neighborhood super, etc, and do it ALWAYS.

    If I’m very generous and say that 50% of the population will not buy anything on that day, sales would be down by 50% for a single day, something that will barely register, if at all

    If those same people just stop buying from home Depot, stop buying Tesla, stop buying at Walmart, etc. that will be noticed. Probably a law will be enacted requiring people to buy at Walmart for patriotism or something stupid like that, but at least it’ll be noticed

  • just_an_average_joe@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    11·
    6 days ago

    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?

    • Korhaka@sopuli.xyz
      3·
      6 days ago

      Woudn’t it be better to target more focused for a longer duration? Don’t buy anything from Amazon for 3 months.

  • Commiunism@beehaw.org
    12·
    6 days ago

    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.

      • Queen HawlSera@lemm.ee
        4·
        5 days ago

        Ah good to know, Yugioh Early Days drops that day and I was planning on buying it day one (Because aint nobody got time to wait 40 minutes for the opponent to win on his first turn) now, I will not

          • Queen HawlSera@lemm.ee
            2·
            5 days ago

            We all want a version of Yugioh that doesn’t cost literal thousands of real world dollars to get decent cards for in a format that isn’t “Waiting 40 minutes for your opponent to play Solitaire until he finishes Special Summoning five of his overpriced boss monsters”

            I’ve waited years for such a thing, I can wait one more day.

            • Nougat@fedia.ioM
              2·
              5 days ago

              This is painfully accurate, And I don’t even play any of those card games.

              • Queen HawlSera@lemm.eeEnglish
                2·
                5 days ago

                I feel like Konami and I both want it to be like the show, but that means different things to both parties.

                I think it means, a battle of wits in which ultimately two parties are summoning stronger and stronger monsters trying to one up the other in the course of a duel while throwing curve balls via Spell or Traps, maybe even an Effect monster or two.

                And Konami thinks it means “Every card printed after 2006 needs to be the most gimmicky bullshit you’ve ever seen and do such absurd things that it would and literally does have entire paragraphs printed on the smallest text ever on each card just to go on and on about how horribly this warps the rules of the game, and the further you go, the more absurdly broken these cards get to the point where insane moon logic is at play more than anything else.”

                So I want Battle City and Konami wants Duelist Kingdom, which is ironic because Battle City comes after Duelist Kingdom

                Seriously I tried playing Master Duel and had to surrender because I literally got a headache trying to remember what all of my cards did.

                Remember when most of your monsters were just Attack/Defend goons who just had flavor text whereas a few here and there might have some small effect? Good times… I’m not even sure Non-Effect monsters exist anymore.

                • Nougat@fedia.ioM
                  3·
                  5 days ago

                  My son taught me to play MTG once. Super basic cards, nothing crazy. Not only could I not keep up with what my cards did, all of the “this effect is in play, but except not this card, because of this other effect, and then there’s a couple other effects going on, too.” I couldn’t be made to care enough to figure that out every time.

        • viking@infosec.pub
          2·
          5 days ago

          You might pre-order and just get the download that day. Or cartridge in the mail or whatever, I don’t know what device the game is released for.

          Then stock up on food the day before and lock yourself in ;-)