General Discussion

One day boycotts are an ineffective way to bring about lasting or meaningful change. It's just a single day of "feel good" and giving some entity the middle-finger. Because it has no teeth and no impact, it can best be described as virtue signaling. Or... akin to the infamous "sternly worded letter".

I share your frustration with the state of things, but the "one-day" boycott will always result in failure. It may show up on a corporations daily/hourly revenue tracking... but when the week is out, things will have returned to normal. It will be meaningless and futile gesture.

>> The reason our country does one day boycotts is because we live in a spoiled commercialized environment where people think they can't live without buying junk they don't need, much less going without for a while.

Are you trying to explain the reasons that one-day boycotts are ineffective? Or are you trying to justify the reasons that certain groups encourage having ineffective one-day boycotts in the first place?

My point is this... we already know that one-day boycotts are meaningless and cause zero pain to the businesses who are being boycotted for a single day. So with that in mind, I wonder what the organizers of these non-events hope to realistically accomplish (beyond a quickly forgotten and probably ignored deeply buried "headline'').

>> The few oligarchs that own most or our industries know that. Add to that the fact they have very little competition and the effectiveness of trying to apply pressure to them does little to sway their fascist tendencies. So I'm askin' - what should we do?

That's a good question. I see that you've prefaced your question with an with a statement that explains the reality, so I think you understand the situation and the limitations of one-day boycotts. The quick and easy "fix" that the defenders and advocates of one-day boycotts seek will never materialize as they hope.

Fact of the matter is that boycotts must hurt the business that's being boycotted and as a result, it will also cause pain to those doing the boycotting. But as you correctly noted... many consumers "can't live without buying junk they don't need". So not only is the one-day boycott ineffective, the willingness of the consumers to do something meaningful does not exist.