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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