Protest With Your Purchasing Power

Hey Jessactivists

I was born in a country during a time when we had no civil rights and liberties, where my parents and grandparents had to fight, where people sacrificed their lives for the right to freedom of assembly, freedom of beliefs, freedom of speech, freedom of expression, freedom of travel and to not be marginalised through arbitrary factors.

This fight lost its zest when we so-called received our freedom, everyone downed their weapons and suckled the teet of victory and enjoying complacent.

Nelson Mandela even said that the fight is not over; you cannot have freedom in today's society without economic freedom. Since the oppression is not in your face, and people feel like their finances are a taboo thing to talk about we don't see the real conversions and the factual information needed to find prosperity.

I've witnessed so many protests over the years for this right or that right but what bugs me is you're all protesting the symptom, you're protesting in a vacuum when you don't see the problem is systemic and it can be changed not by shouting and making a fuss.

Exercising your freedom

I am all for people exercising their freedom of speech. However, they choose, it's up to you to find the best way of getting the desired result, I do feel however we're going about it the wrong way. The current process works like this; people are upset, they shout and march and make a fuss and then want governments and politicians to pander to them for a while and that we call change.

Everything remains the same, just the narrative in society changes, and we all go about our merry way, governments never learn, and the people never learn to hold them accountable.

In the private market, however, it's different, and people understand that, if my company treated my customers as shit as governments treat their citizens, I'd be out of business in a heartbeat.

Customers would walk away, pull their cash, and I'd be left high and dry for someone else who provides a better service reaping the benefits.

So why don't people do the same for governments?

Let me give you a practical example if a city thinks the police are too heavy-handed STOP paying taxes, refuse! Divert the funds towards private police and do it better, provide competition and show governments what law enforcement is like that is humane. They cannot put an entire city in jail for wanting a better life; it would be media circus.

Citizens need to hit governments where it hurts, in their perceived authority and when they fuck up, you strip a bit of that from them and if they never earn it back so be it.

Freedom costs

Freedom costs money, time, labour and effort, it's not free you need to fight for it every day, or you lose it. As a people we have a collective power called purchasing power, we store it in fiat, we don't have to, we can store it in something else. We can bypass these gatekeepers; we can fund what WE want and do it cheaper and more efficient.

Stop trying to beat governments with talk, they are the best bullshitters, beat them at implementation; they'll never be able to compete.

The power of the purchase is in your hands! Use it!

Have your say

What do you good people of HIVE think? Do we need to protest more constructively?

So have at it my Jessies! If you don't have something to comment, comment "I am a Jessie."

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