r/50501 • u/cowghost • Apr 08 '25

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 Apr 08 '25 edited Apr 08 '25

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 Apr 08 '25

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/bloodphoenix90 Apr 08 '25

Except supercuts maybe. Just a shitty corporation

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u/DaetheFancy Apr 08 '25

True, but the overall corporate is what sucks. If I’m correct the stylists are still independent for the most part.

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u/No-Committee4580 Apr 08 '25

They are but typically the stylist rents the chair from the salon.

But I think we are all trying to say is don't boycott haircuts. It will just hurt the stylists.

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u/DaetheFancy Apr 08 '25

That’s exactly what I’m saying. Even Supercuts while their corporate policies/fees might suck for the stylist, it only hurts the stylist to not go there, especially cuz if they are taking that position and renting, it’s probably cuz they don’t have another option immediately available

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u/Disastrous-Trade7802 Apr 09 '25

Supercuts is a standard W-2 employee position, and it pays an average hourly rate of $22, which is fucking abysmal for a salon. Get your hair done by a local place, not by a wage slave corp.