Forum Post: 99% - with wife, kid and mortgage
Posted 13 years ago on Nov. 4, 2011, 3:30 a.m. EST by Atomic
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Economics 101 Tells you that "Demand" derives "Supply" and I would love to see the affect of 99% of the population randomly boycott companies for week durations, so that they will see how important The 99% truly are to their bottom line. Furthermore, passive actions like this will allow people like me (with wife, kids, and Mortgage) to participate in the protest and show our solidarity.
Start with these, then move on to the next 100: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_companies_by_revenue
they all have the same business models: The more profit the better, at any and all other costs!
Boycot Whirlpool-Maytag, GE! Any other suggestions?
Wal-Mart, McDonalds. I can tell you exactly why I boycott those two, so you don't think I'm just grabbing two out of the air.
You go, You go!
Wal-Mart's bad business practices are well-known: pay their employees crappy wages and little to no benefits, then turn around and get free labor out of them after they clock out, suggesting if they don't then they must not be a "team player." We all know what that means. If you're not a "team player" you won't be around very long (we'll fire you for the slightest excuse). Plus the statistic that for every dollar they inject into a community, the community actually loses a dollar and a half. I stopped going to McDonalds years ago when they got caught ripping off their customers during one of their "Monopoly" promos. I hate huge corporations that rip off their employees and customers.
sounds like getting fired is a good prospect then! i wonder why people continue to work for wal mart, if so.
Desperate. And a lot of them are too young, I think, to realize they're getting taken advantage of. What I heard is they only ask you for maybe ten, fifteen minutes after you clock out. They figure, what's ten minutes? I'll earn some brownie points with the boss. What they don't figure is ten minutes times how many thousands of workers they do it to starts to add up to some serious money. All profit for Wal-Mart.