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I'm increasingly of the opinion that the only way to stop the excesses of capitalism is with a concerted effort to gum up the works, one business at a time, from most to least evil.
Everyone who has worked retail knows how to waste the company's time, money, and effort.
Let's say it's a chain of megamarts:
Pick a busy day. Load up a cart with rotisserie chickens, raw meat, and ice cream, and abandon it in the garden center. Window shop and ask as many questions as possible of every employee you encounter. Ask dumb questions. Ask what the battery life on a pair of wired headphones is. Ask how many eggs are in a dozen. How do they know the chicken is boneless? Have they looked? Don't buy anything you ask all the questions about. Buy only loss leaders. Pay with a combination of loose change, a check, and a card you know will decline at the end. "Oh wait I need just one more thing. I'll just be a second!" then leave through the garden center. Go to the automotive center and talk to them about financing a large tire purchase. Back out at the last second. Get paint mixed and then wander off absentmindedly while they're mixing it. Pretend to be interested in signing up for their store credit card. There are so many time wasting questions you can ask about a credit card. And so many ways to fill out a form incorrectly so it's useless. Try to pay with any coupon but one that you know will work. Expired coupons. Coupons for other stores. Coupons from defunct stores. Coupons from Arby's. Chuck E Cheese tokens. Gift certificates from that one comic book shop across town that's run by a sweet old man that still uses gift certificates because he's old fashioned that way. Traveler's cheques. Ask if your membership card from their direct competitor entitles you to any discounts. If you speak a language other than English, that is now your only language. You understand English only when it is disadvantageous to the company for you to do so.
Time is money. Waste their money. And since this is being done to one business at a time, their competitors don't have an entire movement of people acting like plausibly deniable problem customers dragging them down. You're distorting the margin at which they can operate. If they raise prices while it takes forever to buy anything in the stores, well, none of their competitors have that problem.
Yet.
Leave glowing reviews of every low-level employee you encounter. Tip them. Make up a few employees and give them glowing reviews. Leave scathing reviews of anyone in management you encounter.
Harassing the underpaid workers is your solution?
One thing ive noticed is that the younger generation, which I assume you are, have a lot of desire to change capitalism but absolutely shit poor ideas how to do it.
Im not saying I have any great ideas either. But making the already suffering employees suffer more will not lead to changes. You know that.
They're already harassed and their conditions are already deteriorating. The only way that will ever improve is if there is no profit in mistreating them, since there is no party interested in improving things for workers in this country.
One thing I've noticed is that boomers think that if you disagree with them, it means you must be younger than them and therefore wrong.
As opposed to no desire to change capitalism and infinite excuses to prevent such change.
Or any desire to formulate any.
They will have to suffer more regardless. Capitalism demands more work for the same wages over time. And inflation guarantees that wages' ability to pay for a living decrease over time.
I know I disagree with you so you immediately assume I'm a child incapable of giving anything any thought. I work in a customer-facing position. I have my own set of ways to gum up the works for my sector of the economy. Yes, some of the things I listed are aggravating to workers. The ones I have for my job are based on personal experience and I know I would hate them too. But every last one of them was selected to maximize time and resources wasted first and foremost, with the goal of causing actual diminution of the fortunes of the company. If it's just a dick move to the employees, if it causes them suffering without also harming the company's bottom line in some way, I didn't include it. Except maybe the dumb questions thing. That's probably a bridge too far.
If you're older than a boomer, your arguments tend to consist of. "Speak up! Why can't you speak up? No, I don't need a hearing aid. I need you to speak up!"
Rather just figure out where the board and C-staff lives and take a shit on their porch
Every day
You can do both.
Please don't contribute to the abuse, torture, and murder of vulnerable individuals just to make a totally unrelated point. Chickens and cattle are not lumber and steel, they are individuals who would have been loved by their mothers if they had been given the opportunity. The animals we create are all morally entitled to the exact same unconditional love and protection as our own children.
Oh my. This is so well planned. Props to you.
it sounds fun but
how can people coordinate that?
Pick a chain. One that's everywhere. Then pick a day to start and a condition for ceasing. Then get the word out.
The thing is to be indistinguishable from a run of the mill garbage customer, so if they crack down on people for acting like that, they'll piss off the boomers who genuinely act like that as a matter of course.
This reads like a George Carlin bit