Some points to ponder on supporting small businesses, just in time for the holiday shopping season and Small Business Saturday! ✨ Feel free to download & share these images.
When money's tighter than ever and there are plenty of big corporations to boycott, please consider your local & favorite small businesses if you can spend. 💞
The more I hear the word "strike" bandied about, the more I feel like people don't understand what a strike actually is.
People online organize these little strikes with noble intentions, but it's like "We're striking on this xyz day!" and it'll be that. A 24hr strike. Sometimes I see it a little longer, it'll be a call to strike for a few days, but still... There's a reason those don't really work.
When you strike, you strike indefinitely. You go on strike until your demands are met. That's the whole point of withholding your labor/services. You're punishing whoever you're striking against. It's a war of attrition. Either you break, or they do. You hope it's the latter.
Otherwise, it's performative at best. A minor inconvenience. And then everyone gets disillusioned because it didn't work.
I love the ambition to unite and create change, I just wish it was... better directed. 😐
i mean for a new hobby box that is not terrible with shipping hmm
not that i can afford it tho but i can at least bookmark this site for now lol
//update i found a cheaper one and that site has both 2021 and 2022 boxes so. fingers crossed i can afford them one day (they are like 90-100e with shipping included per box mmm)
do u think that twice will fall under the same curse of bts where the members are so tied to the group name, it’ll be hard for them to branch out?
not really. there already are some twice members that are well known on the variety circuit and one of them did literally just launch a very successful solo, so they're already ahead of that and they have been for a while. but also the other members that are less popular are probably not going to be able to branch out at all, but that's just the reality of the industry. tbh it's not really a comparable situation because the contexts are too different. bts is tied to their group identity because they made that their brand intentionally and heavily courted an intl audience without paying the dues back home, so to speak. twice has a massive domestic audience and are likely just to age like any other popular gg, with some members that will be more popular in different fields than others. some will have successful solo careers and some won't, them's the breaks.