You're clearly upset because you THINK it won't have an impact and you WISH they were doing something else. Which is weird because this protest doesn't preclude them from doing anything?

Its not like I'm choosing to use a sick day today or next week to attend one protest or the other.

I'm sad I can't get you to understand how businesses run or basic economics. Even if you pretend no businesses are running on fumes and that missing a payment doesn't have an impact for anyone doesn't make it true.

Or what about this brain blast: not all demand is the same. If I skip lunch today I won't buy lunch twice tomorrow to make up for it... If everyone did that, all restaurants lose 3% of their monthly revenue automatically. Is that not an impact? Is there a magic percentage that it needs to meet to be "impactful"?

Did you ever consider what would happen if it wasn't just you but everyone in the city was late on rent? You're conflating an individual action's impact with collective impact. Your landlord can price in some percentage of missed payments the same way that a store can price in shoplifting. Being drastically off on that estimate is still a problem.

Again, if you're arguing the protest won't be widespread enough that's fine. You could even argue that small businesses will be unfairly targeted by this protest and I'm here for it. But ineffective is not the same as performative.