This is a great ideology, but there aren’t many better alternatives for a lot of people. Most of the alternatives (e.g. Walmart) are just as complicit.
Avoid Amazon when you can, but they have such a critical mass that the only way to defeat them is through government regulation.
Every use, regardless of how you personally justify it, is an action in support of their practices. Every time you use their services, you support union busting. You support wage-slave labour practices. You support the production of waste by buying cheap and convenient products you don’t need. You are literally holding them up and allowing them to do what they do.
Amazon is not an essential service. One does not need an alternative to a non essential service. One simply doesn’t care about the harm done enough to put in any effort to avoid these companies.
This argument is tiring, and in support of these business’ by pretending like they are unavoidable. They aren’t.
Better alternatives for what? I can’t think of anything I’ve ever bought from Amazon out of necessity, only laziness. And nowadays, pretty much everything that cannot be bought at a brick and mortar store, can be bought directly from the manufacturers website.
This is a great ideology, but there aren’t many better alternatives for a lot of people. Most of the alternatives (e.g. Walmart) are just as complicit.
Avoid Amazon when you can, but they have such a critical mass that the only way to defeat them is through government regulation.
Try AliExpress. It has all the same Chinese garbage, but at half the price.
Amazon is not an essential service. One does not need an alternative to a non essential service. One simply doesn’t care about the harm done enough to put in any effort to avoid these companies.
This argument is tiring, and in support of these business’ by pretending like they are unavoidable. They aren’t.
Better alternatives for what? I can’t think of anything I’ve ever bought from Amazon out of necessity, only laziness. And nowadays, pretty much everything that cannot be bought at a brick and mortar store, can be bought directly from the manufacturers website.