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[–] DessertStorms@lemmy.blahaj.zone 36 points 3 months ago (10 children)

Good for them for taking a stand against consumerism, but their personal shopping habits (even collectively, they equal less than a drop in an ocean) aren't going to change neither climate change, nor inflation.

This idea that "every little helps" is just more of the same "personal responsibility" those who are actually responsible but refuse to be held accountable push on to the rest of the population to distract us from their own actions.

The only way to fight climate change (and be rid of the artificial concept that is inflation, which is there solely to make the rich richer) is by removing the cancer, rather than continue to apply band aids to it, and abolishing capitalism.

[–] MrMakabar@slrpnk.net 18 points 3 months ago (6 children)

They do not care about one person doing this, however when all people do it or just a large group they do care.

The simple truth is that abolishing capitalism is not going to solve the climate crisis alone. Just due to all companies becoming cooperatives, does not mean everybody can just drive around in monster trucks, eat steak all day and live in giant mansions. As a matter of fact to solve the climate crisis, abolishing consumerism is a necessity. The way to stop that, is just very simply to consume less. Obviously that has to be done partly by laws like banning business jets for example, but those laws require a cultural shift. That means some people have to go ahead and be an example.

This "the big guys up top, have to solve the crisis" is just a way to deny any sort of responsiblilty and therefore ends up without any sort of action.

[–] Talaraine@fedia.io 16 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

The people seem to have forgotten that their capitalist overlords can only overlord because of the money we give them and let's be fair, most of those purchases are stupid crap to give us a seratonin boost. All I'm tryin ta say is I also get a seratonin boost every time their stocks crash because of a poor earnings report, so let's all just not buy stuff for awhile.

Instead of No Nut November let's try a No Sales September or something

[–] Lennard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

It's actually not that difficult only buying food and hygiene products for one month. It isn't sustainable (for my household) since many things like electronic devices or clothing have a "shelf life" and will break sooner or later.

Still I love the idea and I think it would help many people to save money, use less resources and think about what really makes them happy.

In September I will start making memes about it 🥳

[–] Talaraine@fedia.io 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I love this! Looking forward to September =)

[–] Lennard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 3 months ago

Wow... this movement has just doubled in size. Continuing this exponential growth, the movement will have around 137,438,953,472 participants on September 1st, and thereby will have a profound if not catastrophic impact on the global economy. 🥳🥳

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