• brianary@startrek.website
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    2 months ago

    It’s literally impossible to fully boycott Amazon, I’ve been trying for years. Even if you buy elsewhere, often you’ll find out after the fact that Amazon does the shipping or payment processing.

    We should nationalize their monopoly or break it up.

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      2 months ago

      I haven’t bought anything from Amazon in 10 years. It’s full of crap now, and the legit stuff is just thrown in to a bin in their warehouse for scanning by UPC, so it’s 50/50 if it’s an untraceable counterfeit. And the counterfeiters are good, so you probably won’t notice it’s fake until a couple years later.

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      2 months ago

      It’s like trying to boycott Doordash for takeout. Even if you don’t use the app chances are the place you’re ordering from uses their drivers without you knowing.

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        2 months ago

        I don’t order garbage on amazon or pay people to bring food to my house, and have been able to survive somehow. Wild.

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            2 months ago

            What is avoidable is a subscription to their retail store, with its own very severe workplace issues.

            And while it may be difficult or unrealistic to not be a cog in their web presence, people can still avoid being a direct consumer of that as well.