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I'm not buying anything on Amazon for the next 90 days. Who is with me? I could quit Twitter but I don't know about a permanent quit of Amazon...
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.
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.
I don't order garbage on amazon or pay people to bring food to my house, and have been able to survive somehow. Wild.
If you use the internet you are using AWS. It is unavoidable at this point.
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.
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.
Not that it matters but this change will mostly affect AWS employees which has basically nothing to do with Amazon web store.
I haven't bought anything via the Amazon site in years. At least three, possibly five or more. Anything I need I can get elsewhere either online or in person without supporting Amazon's anti-union, worker-exploiting policies. I won't even use AWS for business purposes because of how they treat their workers. Boycott away, there are plenty of Amazon options that are "good enough" if not actually better.
Haven't used Amazon in two years. I don't even have an account anymore. Doesn't stop them from sending me emails 3x/day to sign up again. I try to shop local, but I do have to go to shitty corp stores for some stuff.
amazon is sadly too useful up in ak, but I'll try to support competitors (aliexpress)
I’m not sure Aliexpress is a shining beacon of workers’ rights either.
workers? I prefer to think of it as flesh based machinery.
Pro: they don't even need A/C to function!