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/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 11h 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.