These bonzos want the world economy to collapse so there will be massive layoffs, allowing them to offer AI bots to companies and governments to replace human workers.
These bonzos want the world economy to collapse so there will be massive layoffs, allowing them to offer AI bots to companies and governments to replace human workers.
Pissed off at Bezos betraying us all again? Consider not giving him your money and boycott Amazon.
Someone reading this message could cost them hundreds or thousands over the coming year by simply shopping elsewhere. That’s not nothing. There’s no doubt that Amazon is convenient, but it is possible to get along without them.
For Americans: in this time of rising fascism, it’s important to chip away at the pillars that are holding up the regime in the White House. This is one way to use your agency to have a measurable impact.
I just want to add to this that YOU DO NOT HAVE TO BOYCOTT SOMETHING COMPLETELY TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE.
It’s absolutely OK if you cannot 100% cut Amazon out of your life. It’s OK if you have to buy from them sometimes because it’s the only place you can find that particular thing you need.
You just need to stop making them your default. Check somewhere else first. Make that little bit of extra effort to see if maybe a local store has what you’re looking for.
If you reduce your spending on Amazon by 80%, that’s still a huge reduction. If enough people do that, they’ll be in serious trouble. And it’s a lot more manageable than an all or nothing boycott.
And if we could convince a hundred million people to reduce their spending Amazon by just 10%, that would have far more impact than a hundred thousand people cutting them out entirely. It’s better to set a lower standard that more people can engage with, especially because the more people develop that habit of not always going to Amazon first, the more it’s place in their lives will continue to shrink.
I call this “soft boycotting”. Reduce rather than remove. It’s far more sustainable as an option in your every day life, and it encourages people to actually engage with boycotting instead of writing it off because it feels like an impossible commitment.
CONSUMERS OF THE WORLD UNITE! ALL YOU HAVE TO LOSE IS CHEAP SHIT YOU DON’T REALLY NEED ANYWAY!
Well, that and some genuinely good media that they’ve locked down the rights to…
Unless… 🏴☠️
By virtue of my location, the Jolly Roger is the only way I can access most popular media.
Hey, piracy is illegal and could send you to pris-whboops trips on a nail folded up paper falls out of my pocket. Woah, little clumsy there. Hand me that paper will you? its a website i need to send a DMCA request to.
I dumped it on Jan 20 after seeing Bezos at Trump’s inauguration. Honestly, after the addiction wore off I don’t miss it at all. The biggest change I’ve noticed is I no longer impulse buy stupid shit I don’t need.
Unfortunately, it won’t make much of a dent at all. Amazon’s traditional goods business runs on very thin margins, and they can write it off. Their profit center these days is AWS, and there isn’t much you or I can do to boycott that.
That said, I have canceled Prime, and I only use Amazon for some hobbyist stuff that’s hard to get from literally anywhere else.
I so badly want to watch the new critical role animated series and conveniently buy and ship Christmas gifts this time of year. God damn it Bezos. All you had to do was not be fucking evil.