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.
I cannot tell what side of the argument you’re trying to be on here, gunna be real hokest with ya.
TronBronson@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Soup@lemmy.world 1 month 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.
TronBronson@lemmy.world 1 month ago
That’s my only point it doesn’t matter if there’s a group of consumers boycotting them if the government doesn’t listen to those constituents. Amazon is a political problem not a consumer problem.
Soup@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Like, yes, but also consumers are the electorate and the people we elect need to represent us. We keep electing people who represent the businesses’ interests and not our own, despite alternatives, and so we have it in our heads that these things are more separate than they are. We have the control, we just refuse to use it to the point where most people have forgotten that.
TronBronson@lemmy.world 1 month 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 1 month ago
Did you miss the part where I said I’d be looking for filters elsewhere even if they cost a bunch more?