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What are you going to do, not shop at Amazon? Avoid AWS?
Pretty easy to not shop at Amazon in my experience
Yeah, but my point is that even if you stop buying from Amazon, it's a drop in the ocean of profits.
Not if a large number of people do it. As far as I know, a large number of people are dissatisfied with Amazon, Bezos, Trump and so on. Apathy is compliance and keeps the tills rolling.
Even if one succumbs to the hopelessness in thinking that resistance is futile, there is still some pleasure to be had from hitting them were it hurts, ie. the only thing they seem to care about - money. How ever small a hit they take from it.
What's a large number of people? 10,000? 10,000,000? Amazon Prime has 180 million subscribers in the US alone, with a revenue of $44 billion dollars annually.
That represents less than 7% of Amazon's annual revenue.
You cannot fathom how massive Amazon is, and how small consumers are in comparison. By all means, stop shopping on Amazon. We all should, because we can. Just don't expect Bezos to give a shit.
Amazon is big because of consumers*, has revenue because of consumers. There are a lot of consumers, yes. That is part of the point.
*people
Avoiding amazon is a fair bit easier than AWS. I barely know what websites use AWS