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Amazon’s now-legendary “Prime Day” is July 8-11. Much like Black Friday or Cyber Monday, this means sales on lots of items on Amazon’s vast marketplace, and as such many people flock to the giant’s website to get sweet deals on everything from computers to small kitchen appliances and more. While many of us are feeling the financial crunch more than ever, I urge you, dear reader, to resist the allure. I don’t typically have strong opinions about where people chose to shop or how they decide to spend their heard-earned money, but in this post I hope to lay out a convincing case for why Amazon is full-stop evil, no caveats, and is undeserving of your money on a moral and ethical level no matter what your values are. Amazon needs to be stopped, and legislation will not do so. Only its loyal consumers – who keep the beast alive – can do that by taking their money elsewhere. No matter your political or personal beliefs, I'm certain Amazon violates them in one way or another, and you should vote with your dollar by buying from other places whenever possible. Here’s why.

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[–] I_Has_A_Hat@lemmy.world 39 points 2 days ago (19 children)

I have yet to see a single item have a significant discount on prime day, it's not even a sale.

[–] SendMePhotos@lemmy.world 44 points 2 days ago (11 children)
[–] witten@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 20 hours ago) (10 children)

~~Owned by Amazon, FYI.~~

Turns out I'm full of shit.

[–] ObsidianZed@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I can't seem to find evidence of that. All I see is they're Amazon affiliates, which pretty much anybody can be.

Do you have a source?

[–] witten@lemmy.world 1 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Looks like I was wrong! Consider it a human hallucination.

[–] ObsidianZed@lemmy.world 2 points 18 hours ago

Fair enough. Honestly it was probably a safe bet too considering how much they have their hands in.

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