Yeah I stopped using Amazon as much as possible a long time ago. Cancelled my Audible subscription (except every now and then when they get desperate and give me another free month, after which I promptly re-cancel without giving them money), was never a Prime customer. Unfortunately once or twice I’ve come across a product where it was only available via Amazon (and no equivalent product was available elsewhere), or the price difference was on the order of $100 purely thanks to international shipping. But I’m not being hyperbolic when I describe that as “once or twice” over the last 5+ years.
It saddens me when I hear people talk about how much they use Amazon.
It’s kinda rough living in Seattle where the closest grocery store is Amazon Fresh, the next closest is Whole Foods, and there are no big-box stores where I can actually buy a wide variety of things.
I suppose I could buy a car and drive out of the city to shop at other businesses, but that is expensive and ecologically damaging, and I’ll probably end up shopping at other businesses that are also evil anyway because there’s no such thing as ethical consumption under capitalism.
Um…I have a solution.
STOP GIVING FUCKIN AMAZON MONEY.
WHAT THE FUCK. They’ve proven over and over again to be evil. How anyone with a conscience still uses their shit is beyond me.
Yeah I stopped using Amazon as much as possible a long time ago. Cancelled my Audible subscription (except every now and then when they get desperate and give me another free month, after which I promptly re-cancel without giving them money), was never a Prime customer. Unfortunately once or twice I’ve come across a product where it was only available via Amazon (and no equivalent product was available elsewhere), or the price difference was on the order of $100 purely thanks to international shipping. But I’m not being hyperbolic when I describe that as “once or twice” over the last 5+ years.
It saddens me when I hear people talk about how much they use Amazon.
It’s kinda rough living in Seattle where the closest grocery store is Amazon Fresh, the next closest is Whole Foods, and there are no big-box stores where I can actually buy a wide variety of things.
I suppose I could buy a car and drive out of the city to shop at other businesses, but that is expensive and ecologically damaging, and I’ll probably end up shopping at other businesses that are also evil anyway because there’s no such thing as ethical consumption under capitalism.