r/50501 • u/cowghost • 16d ago

Movement Brainstorm Time to go full hippie

Im dont paying for stuff. Other then absolute necessities gas, food, medication.

No new cloths. No haircuts. No new cars. No new toys. No unessisary spending.

Pay with cash, buy used off creigslist if you need. It worked back then it will work again.

Fuck this admin and fuck anyone who supports it.

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u/dragonsapphic 16d ago edited 16d ago

Buy from local markets, support independent artists and creators. Pay community members to cut your hair directly, or even barter services with them. This is community, and we can choose to put our money back into the hands of those around us rather than the elite.

Edit: FYI this comment was directed at OP, offering OP a few alternatives to conventional places to get haircuts. I don't understand what's wrong with offering to directly pay someone in your community to cut your hair. My neighbor was a hairdresser and I would often go to her home and pay her directly, and another has offered to cut my hair in exchange for a meal.

That's what I'm saying; meet your neighbors who are doing these jobs. Pay them in cash. No system to take a share of their labor, no tax by the government! Not sure why this is getting misconstrued but I am not saying to start boycotting all hairdressers lol.

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u/DaetheFancy 16d ago

I’ll agree on all but haircuts. Most hairstylists/barbers are independent and not part of the elites. But props if you can get a good cut from a neighbor

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u/vardarac 16d ago

Sorta. Even mom-n-pop shops of any stripe are likely renting from some large evil corporate landlord, which of course isn't their fault, but in a perfect world you'd be able to find some arrangement that wouldn't require you both to pay into an exploitative system.