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You can sustain yourself (very comfortably) without having the industrial scale resources to affect your community in the aggregate.
If you don't have time for life, then you're poor. The French would have burned down a hundred cars by now
The US produces 100 cars about every four minutes. So I'd say this is a negligible impact long term.
Also, Macron's France is just Hillary's America. It hasn't done dick shit to curb poverty or resolve the social tension between French Capital and its Labor movement. A great deal of these protests are coming from French fascist pensioners, rioting over the country's immigrant population. Just burning a few dozen cars once a month is not reshaping the French economy in any meaningful capacity.
I feel this. I help where I can and it feels like an infinitely deep abyss of need unfillable by what resources I can provide. In times past I've been able to come up with $1000 to help someone and before its been the difference between life success and failure. Now $1000 may only fix a single problem for the person and they have 3 to 4 other problems of equal weight with equal consequences. So fixing the one still causes their lives to go off the rails from the other remaining problems.
It makes me feel helpless to not be able to do anything meaningful.