r/Anticonsumption • u/Healthy_Block3036 • 1d ago

Corporations Target struggles after end of DEI program and boycott, with foot traffic down 8 weeks in a row.

https://fortune.com/2025/04/01/target-dei-demise-boycott-foot-traffic-down-eighth-consecutive-week/?itm_source=parsely-api
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u/Deeliciousness 1d ago

Don't kid yourself, workers everywhere are gonna feel the brunt of this madness. We're the ones who will feel the pinch when prices for everything we need go up by 50%

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u/IRefuseToGiveAName 1d ago

Yup. I was talking to someone and mentioned, mostly sarcastically, that it's crazy we keep having these once in a generation financial crises, but the same rich people not only stay rich, but seem to get richer.

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u/Akussa 1d ago edited 1d ago

It's by design this time. They WANT the market to crash, farms to fail, home foreclosures, etc. It allows them to snap them up at bargain prices to make themselves richer and richer and richer. They have the money live off of and wait for things to recover enough to make more money. The robber barons are back and worse than ever. Only this time no one is willing to fight back. This political cartoon about robber barons from 1904 looks weirdly familiar in 2025.

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u/PAXM73 1d ago

Yeah! Nice call with that 1904. I love the political “cartoons” from that time period. Information dense and effective.

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u/TheMadPhilosophist 10h ago

People will be willing one they have lose their jobs and have no job prospects. How they fight back is yet to be seen. But once people no longer have money for food or, critically, entertainment, they're going to get bored and angry.

To control America, you only need to control their entertainment, but once they can no longer afford entertainment, they'll leave their homes and start being angry in the streets. And with so many guns in circulation, the roaming will probably be quite dangerous.

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u/Witchgrass 1d ago

That toad mtg bought a bunch of dollar general stock a few weeks ago before the tariffs and the stock is up something like 15% since she bought. They're all ghouls.

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u/BigTittyTriangle 1d ago

We just gotta hold and lean on and support our communities. They want us divided so we fall.

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u/lurkensteinsmonster 1d ago

Hopefully it wont last long before people decide to party like it's 1793

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u/Ok-Bit4971 1d ago

Like groceries did since Covid?

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u/Deeliciousness 23h ago

Yup, my Costco bill nearly doubled

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u/Electrifying2017 1d ago

No doubt! In this case, loss of income will affect these workers immediately. 

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u/manyhippofarts 1d ago

Yup. We just all need to focus on needing less for a while, I guess.