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Good for them for taking a stand against consumerism, but their personal shopping habits (even collectively, they equal less than a drop in an ocean) aren't going to change neither climate change, nor inflation.
This idea that "every little helps" is just more of the same "personal responsibility" those who are actually responsible but refuse to be held accountable push on to the rest of the population to distract us from their own actions.
The only way to fight climate change (and be rid of the artificial concept that is inflation, which is there solely to make the rich richer) is by removing the cancer, rather than continue to apply band aids to it, and abolishing capitalism.
Inflation doesn't exist to make the rich richer.
The main reason for some a little inflation is so that people won't hoard money and instead invest it in stuff which is good for the economy.
If every rich asshole only sat on their money for eternity everyone would be worse off.
Have you had a look around recently?
Yeah, and as far as I can tell it's mostly invested