Amazon Boycot March 7-14th | No Purchases. Its time to disrupt the system.

[lmmarsano@lemmynsfw.com]

Tax-free growth, beating inflation, diversification to mitigate risk & lessen volatility (eg, not putting eggs all in 1 basket).
Markets always have risk: if you're really afraid of risk, you can shift to mostly low-risk types of investments (bonds, money market, cash equivalents, etc).
Real estate is typically considered riskier.

Retirement isn't necessary: qualified distributions (no tax penalty) only require reaching a certain age or any of the many exceptions (including terminal illness).
Early distribution with tax penalty is always possible.

It's all basic information a certified financial planner or advisor or some articles on the internet can tell you.

[Guest]

This is how strikes are organized generally. You do limited time events too minimize the hurt on both sides, and bring them both to the table.

[balder1991@lemmy.world]

I’m canceling Prime here in Brazil mostly because it’s getting more and more expensive, the selection of products with free shipping is getting smaller and I don’t even watch anything anymore on Prime Video. I realized the only reason I still have it is inertia from the good times when it costed me $2 a month—years ago.

It shows that Amazon was probably operating at a loss before to bankrupt the local competition, but now that they raised prices and offer less, it’s actually becoming a worse deal.

[dkc@lemmy.world]

I’ve been able to successfully degoogle, and recently came to terms that I need to deamazon too. It’s going to take quite a while. I’m a prime subscriber and use AWS.

I’m looking into Barnes and Nobel for future book purchases. I recently did a larger purchase online directly from the vendor instead of purchasing through Amazon. I plan to do more of that.

What’s been frustrating has been the small things. I needed a pill splitter, so I stopped at Walmart on the way home from work, dealt with some crowd and retraced my steps around the pharmacy a few times before I found it, then had to deal with self checkout. This would have been quicker and wasted less of my time to use Amazon. That’s going to be the hardest kind of benefit to give up.

AWS I’ll probably start migrating this summer. I’m planning to switch to Backblaze for cloud storage. I still need to look into an alternative registrar, and ideally very cheap static web hosting. I also need to find providers that have good ansible support since I use that for all my local and remote configuration.

It took years for me to get off Google. I worry it’s going to take even longer to give up Amazon, but yeah it’s time.

[krauerking@lemy.lol]

Yeah the true crime has been how awful cut and beige all their clothing options are now. But they have always chased which ever group they think is in power and spending cash and I guess it's wannabe trad upper middle class now, instead of queer upper middle class.

[olhonestjim@lemmy.world]

And why should I be confident that any of that is going to survive the next 4 years?

[Guest]

The economy has been helping me boycott for years now. Can't buy if you don't have disposable income.

[allhailthesheep@sh.itjust.works]

sounds easy considering I haven't bought anything from Amazon in years

[Guest]

Difference here: Amazon being owned by a man worth fucking $200 BILLION, any temporary disruption will hardly register on the grande scale of his wealth.

[alpha71@lemmy.world]

Here's the thing. If I could shop somewhere else I would. Do you know what sets Amazon apart from other places? It's their delivery, pure and simple. I ordered 3 TV's from Best Buy. It took them a week to ship them. I had to pay for shipping on top of the $600 I spent. On the day I was supposed to receive them I was home all day. I got a notification they were an hour out. So I went outside and waited for them to arrive. They never arrived, but i got an email telling me they had stopped by but I wasn't home.

So I had to go down to their depot to pick them up. I am stuck using public transit so Imagine trying to get 3 40 inch TV's home on a bus. I ended up having to get a cab half way home with money I couldn't afford to spend just to get it all home.

So for me, That is the main reason I buy from Amazon. Although lately I've been shopping with Uber from Walmart.

And Fuck Purolator.

[Guest]

I've stopped using amazon as my one-stop shop years ago. I think the majority of the population has gotten too used to convenience over ethic's.

[nickwitha_k@lemmy.sdf.org]

We are boycotting Amazon products until they make another season of The Expanse

With the time skip, that's going to be a long boycott.

[melvin_ferd@lemmy.world]

No, frig off with this shit. How the hell is marching doing Jack shit. Fuck I hate how ineffective these people are. You'll get more mileage out of a day or shit posting rather than burning everyone's day like this. Having a bunch of pasty granola munchers gather to cry publicly does sweet all

[melvin_ferd@lemmy.world]

I'm an idiot, I thought this was a March

[Guest]

Amazon bought Barnes&Noble ages ago; buying from them at all is still benefiting Amazon — but there are lots of great alternatives online for books (physical and ebook formats), as well as visiting your local used book stores. I use Amazon for keyword searches basically just so I can maximize the number of results I get elsewhere. Getting off of major sites like Amazon, Walmart, Target, etc. also puts you back in touch with the actual internet rather than the retail echo chamber we’re accustomed to.

I get way better deals that way as well, and pay vendors directly rather than through a middleman like Amazon.

[Guest]

Easy - I stopped using Amazon period.

[Guest]

Perfection is the enemy of progress.

If you can't get people to vote for the better candidate, do you really think a perfect boycott can be organized?

Let's start somewhere and build momentum. If you get more momentum doing something more significant, all the more power to you. If not, learn to appreciate other folks doing something more than just criticizing.

[melvin_ferd@lemmy.world]

A warning? Wtf

[melvin_ferd@lemmy.world]

Guys I'm going to take a picture of myself holding up a sign saying that Amazon are racist oligarchs and I'm going to post it online

[Guest]

Don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good. Yes, this isn't the best way to harm Amazon, but small, targeted boycotts can drive change. And I bet, if you try living without Amazon for a week, you'll find replacements and it'll be easier to move away from them long-term