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one of my friends reminded me of some messaging going around encouraging people to "shop our values" as a stand in for "supporting local businesses".... the local businesses, many of which took PPP loans, fired all their staff, pocketed the payout and then got forgiven... only to turn around and complain "nobody wants to work anymore" when nobody wanted to come back to their shit show.
to be clear, I do believe in the efficacy of spending money in the local community generally, but a whole bunch of local businesses showed their entire ass during COVID, and so fuck them forever.