Comment on Amazon is Canceling Orders After Tariffs Destroy Profits

seven_phone@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

• Fiivemacs@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I’d rather people got used to just going without instead. Grab a book, go outside under a tree. Read the book.

  Cancel subscriptions, cancel memberships, cancel reoccuring costs. Buy food, and quality items. Stop buying ‘smart’ shit.

  You need none of this junk. Stop feeding the machine. Make them hurt. We control ALL the power.

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  • wolframhydroxide@sh.itjust.works ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Ironic that you say “grab a book”, when one of the largest booksellers in the world, putting all smaller booksellers out of business, is the thing we’re all railing against. Do you realize how much of a monopoly they have on all corners of the market? It’s not just “smart shit”.

    I’ve been boycotting all amazon subsidiaries and affiliates for over a year now, so I’m not suggesting that we shouldn’t, but that’s easier said than done. This comment is displaying “gee thanks, I’m cured” levels of ignorance.

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    • Fiivemacs@lemmy.ca ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Cool beans…cancel subscriptions and grab a book, like I said.

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      • wolframhydroxide@sh.itjust.works ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        How privileged, your wondrous life must be. I envy you the marble and ivory walks you must be able to tread in this, your halcyon paradise, where you can merely tell these ignoble peasants to eat cake. I pity you your ignorance. When the silt on which you’ve built your grand temple to your own ambivalence washes away, I wonder what you will say, then?

        Get down off your fucking high horse and fight, or fuck off, Marie Antoinette.

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• Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Amazon will survive simply due to AWS.

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  • mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Yeah, Amazon controls like half of the entire world’s internet by this point. It’s truly an astronomically large number of sites. Between AWS and CloudFlare, it reminds me of the old Bell telephony monopoly BS from the 70’s and 80’s.

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  • seven_phone@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Good I hope Amazon does have to start thinking in those terms, about its survival and due consideration and not have easy and forced free reign to spaff corporate cold greed all over local commerce and everyday trade between people.

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• harrys_balzac@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I’ve been trying to order directly from manufacturers or wholesale when possible. It’s been challenging but worth it so far.

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