I don’t use Amazon, and I never have
Everyone using them is complicit.
People are so willing to cast others aside for their own convenience and justify it by saying “other people are doing it too”
And anyone who has a retirement holding index funds is also complicit?
I am lucky enough to live in a civilised country, rather than 'Murica
My retirement fund is an ethical one. They don’t invest in firearms, tobacco, oil or any of the other shitty things out there
What do they invest in?
Renewable energy seems to be a big one
Once they excluded the shit I didn’t want, I didn’t go any further into it
Sure, but also, there is no ethical consumption under capitalism.
It’s functionally impossible to ethically buy all the things you need and want. Yes we should all try to do our best and not just give up, but the actual solution is with systemic changes in our laws and regulations and how we set up our society. Everyone should focus on that long-term goal, while making small changes to their behavior. But that simply isn’t feasible for everyone to do and that is the bigger issue.
You say true. I try my best but I’m at least 15% complicit. Hopefully that’ll change in the future. I’m from Canada and still pissed off that the federal government is still using Twitter to communicate.
Although i rarely buy online and try to boycott Amazon, the problem is that there are no better alternatives, especially here in Europe. I don’t know about the US but I try to buy from European stores but unfortunately there just isn’t a warehouse with the same catalogue as Amazon. And trying to usurp Amazon in Europe will taka a while.
I’m in Australia, and yet, I manage just fine
You’re making excuses. You know what you are doing.
How about we switch places and see if you could manage to browse online stores in different languages and see what you’re looking for.
It’s easy to be naive.
Wildberries?
The Russians are sanctioned!
You don’t say
He just did!
Funny hat you had last Halloween
We workers are alone on the fight against these capitalist ghouls—no judge, politician, or any other ‘leader’ is gonna come to save us. And there’s nothing we can do to win the fight. But there’s one thing we can stop doing—giving them our labour. That’s the only leverage we got. Striking, quitting, not applying for those jobs… yes, I know many people aren’t in a position where that’s an option, I myself have worked delivering for Amazon (and it’s not even in my top 5 worst jobs), but if you can’t afford to quit a shitty job at an Amazon warehouse you can’t afford to be having a baby, either.
Having a baby is not necessarily a choice in America in 2026.
Bezos should have write a billion dollar check to every plaintiff.
pregnancy-related hospitalization
How much does anyone want to bet that this was for going to the hospital to give birth?
Given how they were treated before, more likely a miscarriage or complications early on.
Yes Amazon, like most multi-billion dollar corporations, hates you. They hate their customers, they hate their workers, they hate government standing in their way, they hate the planet.
You may think the poster above is being hyperbolic. As someone who used to work there they are not. They hate you and everything they say and do reflects this.
Yep. I’m not saying there no good employees, but upper management and the overall direction of Amazon corporation is uncaring at best, openly hostile at worst.
they just spent 200bn on AI, so from the grapevine, of amazon employyes/WF, they are looking to downsizing more somewhere.
Absolutely brutal.
This is why I cancelled my Amazon and routinely avoid buying from them.
My phone broke and I got locked out of all my corporate accounts, from google to other emails, to those cash paying apps (that are refusing to give me another way to get my money, they are just planning on stealing it from me,) to my Amazon account.
I tried opening a new one and they wouldn’t let me. Good riddance. I wanted to ditch those parasites anyway. Now all I need is a smart phone running graphene or something, and open source on my computers.
Yep, I got my current Samsung about 3 years ago before I really understood what was happening and what I wanted.
I plan to phase out a lot of apps and relying on this stuff in my next phone. I want to set up a NAS and self host for my backups and photos.
I had a £5 Amazon voucher from my last job and I haven’t used Amazon for long enough now that looking at their site… There isn’t really anything I want.
Also £5 just covers the delivery fee, so wtf is even the point?
I’d honestly just give it to someone else or sell it for cost, someone might buy it
Anazon polices their warehouse force with ruthlessly designed computer programs. It doesn’t matter why you fell behind, they fire them by computer.
It’s not like the government is going to stop them.
When I saw this earlier I made this:
So many years without civil war between oligarchs and their slaves (normal human beings) is beyond me
France literally gave us the ships and gold to revolt, still drags out the guillotine for a protest….we just won’t listen
Maybe we should start fighting the cops
Bread and circus
Antihuman
Stop supporting this fucking company and burn down their warehouses.
Personally I just wish this had legal consequences for real people, because ultimately someone makes those decisions.
Avoiding a single company might be viable, but constantly keeping track of who (and their brands) should be avoided imo is not the solution, but a bandaid fix.
Yeah I can be hard to track all of them. Tracking Amazon isn’t though.
The large majority of amazon profit comes from AWS. AWS accounts for around 3.5% of the entire internet. It’s also at least a third of all cloud computing.
It might be nearly impossible to avoid giving amazon your dollar if you are online.
Maybe you can’t avoid AWS, but at least get rid of Amazon Prime.
While wishing in one hand, you can do something real, and never knowingly give them a cent in the other hand.
Funny you can buy a whole bunch of styrofoam from amazon, gasoline from your local gas station is ingredient #2 for making sure that warehouse stays burning for a while
I might need a demonstration before I can understand the instructions
Something like this
At the end of the day it’s just people managing people, right? Surprised that low level managers haven’t drawn a line. Really speaks to the lack of solidarity and the lack of job security.
I lived in the US for three years. This is the first time I heard that women get two weeks off for delivery and offices have milking rooms.
Yeah. We built a new building and actually have a pregnant employee, so we’re all annoyed that we can’t use the breast-feeding room for storage anymore.
Nobody said any of that time off was paid.
In the U.S. the only thing women are guaranteed nationwide are 12 weeks of unpaid leave and only if you work at a company with 50 or more employees.
