kaozennrk

kaozennrk t1_jdws5lh wrote

We need employee customer partnership unions. Somebody tell me if this concept already exists. Each employee or union organizes a pledge of sympathetic customers in the local area that agree to boycott a brand or location as a silent strike. When the union or employee organization votes for a customer strike then the group of pledged customers will not shop, buy or engage with service from the company the employees work for. Because most customers are workers too and the company strategy is a divide and conquer for profit deal. I remember Market Basket had a strike and the sympathetic customer boycotted the stores and it really worked.

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kaozennrk t1_j9dr0rz wrote

At age in 1975 I would be given $2 and walk a block to Cumberland Farms on Pine Street in Portland and buy Winston 100s for my step mother. I always wished I had my own money to buy the 25 cent candy bars there on the shelf.

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kaozennrk t1_j8utxlx wrote

A true worry. It seems we don't seem to have any push back on visual annoyance. Signs and sings and signs. Billboards (not in maine). Road signs- our stop signs now all have signs that warn there is stop sign. Cities and towns installing bright digital information screens. More and more you look around and see visual pollution. People walking a beach at night with a headlamp on. It's like we don't have any sense of the disruption on serenity all these thing have. And space won't be any different. (okay rant over)

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kaozennrk t1_j3fcddb wrote

Adapt and enjoy the longer, warmer summers and change of ecology such as tree and animal diversity. Be thankful for lower heating bills and better farm produce. Go swimming in the ocean more because it's not too freaking cold. Just to name a few.

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