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Dre Beltrami's avatar

Guuuuurrrllll, it’s like you rummaged through my half baked thoughts and made sense of them. I couldn’t have said it better… and either could Chat GPT. 😂

This shit is bananas and all we can do is be heard with our wallets, energy, and deafening indifference for taking the BS.

I’m on this human hill with you!

Let’s stay loud about this shit. We need to be talking about all of this more. 🫶

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Shaneh Woods's avatar

Profit is Protest is the hill that I am currently prepared to live and die on. We as small business owners are powerful AF and just haven't known that.... until now. Just ask Tesla, and target, and Anheuser-Busch, and.... and.... and....

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Tara Stiles's avatar

Love this! My friend Kate Judge wrote an awesome book called Direct about how awesome it is to support businesses that directly support people, from an economic perspective. Reads as easy as In Defense of Food if you aren’t an economist. I’m sure not and I loved and learned a lot from it. Love this !!

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Shaneh Woods's avatar

Thanks! and Thank you for the book rec. I’m always looking for my next read!

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DJ's avatar

Amen!

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Tanya Kucey ART 🇨🇦's avatar

Thank you for this. It is something I have been sharing for years: teaching others that when you feel overwhelmed and hopeless and like you can’t make any difference in the world – you actually can. We have the choice and how we live our lives. And we have the choice where we spend our time and money.

I appreciate you being able to write this in a way that is educational but also accessible. Being able to teach without judgement or ego is no small feat! 🙌

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Shaneh Woods's avatar

Thank you! Everything is a choice - even when we don't do anything, that is the choice. And when we're overwhelmed and helpless, it is hard to remember that all power is rooted in the individual and one tiny act can change everything.

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Satheesh Kumar's avatar

The protest market isn’t just in dollars. It’s in data.

Every login is a vote too.

That’s why 0 WHY NOT social exists; not another billionaire’s warehouse, not another algorithm casino.

No appeasement. No ads. No surveillance. Just fun, damn it.

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Shaneh Woods's avatar

Agreed!

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Satheesh Kumar's avatar

Love that you see this. With 0 WHY NOT we’ve been rewilding social too — 0 ads, 0 snitching, fun > function. Not escape, a reset.

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