It super depends on what you’re buying. Personally, I just go without in order to avoid them. The only things I ever buy from Amazon are things I cannot find anywhere else that I need to have, such as water filters for the lead pipes in Montréal.
We don’t have the luxury to ignore how bad Amazon is. Amazon is aware of this and does everything it can to force you to buy from them by under cutting other businesses until competition dries up. Every time I can buy something for a little bit more and skip Amazon that’s a huge a win for everyone from the original supplier, the more local store selling it, and the working class in general.
TronBronson@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
No bro water filters from Amazon are unethical, please expose yourself to lead because some guy on lemmy is virtue signaling /s
Soup@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I cannot tell what side of the argument you’re trying to be on here, gunna be real hokest with ya.
TronBronson@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I mean what I said. I also buy water filters from Amazon because I suck water straight from the ground. Some times the water is yellow and needs to be filtered.
Soup@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Did you miss the part where I said I’d be looking for filters elsewhere even if they cost a bunch more?
TronBronson@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I think personal safety is more important that virtue signaling. You should have used your political power to regulate it before it became a critical service in communities. I hate Amazon, yet I am dependent on it. I come from the side of nuance. You want to handle Amazon you monopoly bust it. Boycotting won’t help.
Soup@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I have always voted progressive, never even centrist. I live in Canada, also, but yea I don’t actually make the rules but the people I vote for to make said rules don’t like Amazon either.