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Maybe don’t shop from Amazon????
Two unfortunate truths make this idea less useful, sadly
Voting with your wallet does absolutely nothing
amazon is a necessary service for many
Funny, I haven’t bought anything from Amazon in years. Tired of excuses.
It's ineffective as a strategy for change. You still use the internet and I'm 100% sure that a lot of the services you use (many unwittingly, such as CDNs) are hosted in AWS. Amazon is simply too big to fail, and even if thousands of people consistently stopped shopping from Amazon, the state would step in and subsidize them/bail them out to offset the boycott because Amazon has become an essential part of commerce in the Western world.
Didn’t say it’s gonna create change, but bezos has plenty of money already from elsewhere he doesn’t need mine. Every dollar you spend at Amazon could be spent at a small business.
I suppose that's something you could do but I don't see why? Unless you shop exclusively at like, worker-owned businesses and communes, you're still doing more or less the same. I'd argue that if you can save money by buying fewer things and buying only the things you really need via the cheapest channels, then use the rest of your money wisely (knowing how to strike a balance between saving/investing to prepare for the future and charity/bail funds/other mutual aid) is more significant than the usual liberal approach to ethical consumption of believing that your local small business tyrants are somehow less exploitative or less capitalistic than the tech giants.
The small business tyrants keep that $ circulating in the local economy, which is more valuable than me saving 10 cents.
lol. lmao
Have they collapsed yet?
Are you trolling me here or do you actually suppose your circumstances apply to everyone else? If we're talking excuses there's none for that brainfart
I don't think she was shopping there. I think she was just taking them at their word that they'd give a fuck about bigotry.
I mean I admit I've bought stuff from Amazon before. I'm not proud. I got banned from reviews like 5 years ago and since then have occasionally bought books, but that's the only use of it I get anymore, when I want a book I can't seem to find anywhere else.
Yeah that was the main thing I was trying to communicate though. Amazon does not care about selling explicitly bigoted merchandise, even though their representatives have told me directly they'd handle it, or they agreed with me that the items should be removed. What they do care about is someone (like me) bringing attention to the problem in a way that could hurt sales or drive away merchants who want to sell a T-shirt with slurs on it.
It's unsurprising but still heartbreaking. Twenty years ago ButtBidet believed that people gave a shit about bigotry, and the realisation has been difficult.
I don't want to tell the name of the website as it would doxx me hard, but there's an online shopping website I use occasionally, and the website makes it virtually guaranteed that seller can remove a negative review any time they want. I did find it VERY frustrating that 1) I got ripped off, and 2) I can't even tell the world how shoddy the quality is. Anyhow, the point is that I understand your grief.
Consider epubs maybe? It's the best way I've been able to get away from Amazon.
edit: Not shaming you for using Amazong
Yeah I try not to. I used to use it a lot, but only use it now as a last resort when buying books.