It’s crazy how Apple out there all “hey come spend $2k on a phone” right as I’m nervously looking for the door. How much do I really use the ecosystem?
No one will ever forget the world’s hippiest tech company bribing Trump with gold.
Amazon is genuinely hard because I am very poor and there’s often a big price difference on Amazon. I am working on it. I’m a millennial and frugality is a core requirement of survival.
DarkCloud@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
So many people out there still use Instagram, amazon, reddit, and PayPal regularly. It’s like they aren’t connecting the dots.
theparadox@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
While I make quite an effort to avoid unethical companies, the list has only grown since I started. I suspect the only reason it hasn’t grown exponentially to include the vast majority of companies I still use is that I haven’t dug into every single company to find out how unethical it is.
Run by Technofascists? Run by regular fascists? Supports fascists hoping for quid-pro-quo benefits? Human rights abuses? Exploits workers? Pollutes the environment as much as it can get away with? Busts unions? Dodges taxes? Embraced AI? Exploits customers? Embraces surveillance capitalism? Collects and sells personal data? Heavily enshittified? I could go on and on.
DarkCloud@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
The idea of being perfectly ethical or finding companies that are, is futile. But I was just talking about avoiding the big techno-fascist billionaire linked ones (there’s really not that many of them).
We should start from there. Start with the premise that there are more ethical companies, and less ethical companies - rather than looking for “ethical consumption under Capitalism”… If you start off with such an ideal goal and no one is going to bother.
Can we all just avoid the big shitty ones.
weimaraner_of_doom@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
I was talking to a coworker they other day and they said something along the lines of, “Anymore it feels like the entire corporate world is in a race to the bottom.”
Couldn’t disagree with that.