Our personal responsibility is to make the State not deficient though, not a boycott of amazon.com or whatever you’re suggesting. A boycott of even their digital and physical storefronts probably wouldn’t even change much, since Amazon makes most of their profit via AWS. Something like 33% of all internet traffic goes through AWS in some fashion, so boycotting that is even harder. The only real option I can see is to make the State regulate them in some manner because all the people in the world can’t fight a trillion dollar company themselves.
It shouldn’t be indeed, but unfortunately it is. We can’t just hide our personal responsibility behind the State when the State is deficient.
zalgotext@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
GreaterDane@reddthat.com 1 year ago
Why not both? I’m happy to avoid buying Amazon (do I really need to avoid walking to the store?) while advocating for crackdowns on Amazon.
Tavarin@lemmy.world 1 year ago
There are certain things I can’t get anywhere near me from anyone other than Amazon, and I live in a city of 6 million people. Sadly I need to use Amazon about once a month. Getting groceries from them is ridiculous though.
yata@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
Aren’t there any online shopping alternatives to amazon? Are they really the only online vendor who is allowed to mail stuff to your 6 million people city?
Tavarin@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Not ones that can get me the things I need within the month.
hup@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Nah you’re just bad at online shopping.
Tavarin@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Nah, some shit would take weeks to get to me from the few other alternate vendors, and I;m not waiting that long.
drenchtoast@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I think you just proved their point lol.
refurbishedrefurbisher@lemmy.sdf.org 1 year ago
Unfortunately, organizing on the scale necessary to defeat Amazon is damn near impossible. I think doing so politically is our best bet.