Amazon Boycot March 7-14th | No Purchases. Its time to disrupt the system.
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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.
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.
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That’s so stupid. Boycott only works if it’s indefinite, because you want the company to try to win you back.
If you say that you are coming back, what exactly are you expecting to happen? They’ll change nothing because you already said that you are coming back
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.
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Not necessarily. The employees of airlines have been quite impactful with partial, random strikes in a method called CHOAS. Not everyone will strike at the same time and their strikes only last a few hours- enough to cause problems for the flight they've been scheduled on. This hurts the company without harming too many customers and has been effective in the past as a strike strategy.
Think of a partial strike as a warning that more could follow if demands aren't meet.
A warning? Wtf
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Do you guys really rely on Amazon so much that one week without feels like a protest? Seriously?
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
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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.
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
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And why should I be confident that any of that is going to survive the next 4 years?
Not saying you should.
The fact remains, though, you're already investing it in real estate in an all-eggs-in-one-basket situation & inflation is real.
Real estate still has some risk compared to low-risk assets that appreciate: do you remember any recent real estate crashes?Investment accounts are generally insured (against things going missing) up to high limits, and you can split them up to fit in those limits.
If it all goes to shit, practically none of it will be worth much anyway.
If armageddon doesn't come to pass, you'll be stuck with some property, livestock, crops, so not all bad. -
I'm an idiot, I thought this was a March
‘It’s also kind of ick too” Jesus Christ
Refusing to buy things is one of the few ways we have to protest businesses. Your whole comment reeks of naivety, similar to people to who have never read history and believe in peaceful revolution. lol
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Be nice if these sort of things linked to a committee that actually proposed a strategy.
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Not saying you should.
The fact remains, though, you're already investing it in real estate in an all-eggs-in-one-basket situation & inflation is real.
Real estate still has some risk compared to low-risk assets that appreciate: do you remember any recent real estate crashes?Investment accounts are generally insured (against things going missing) up to high limits, and you can split them up to fit in those limits.
If it all goes to shit, practically none of it will be worth much anyway.
If armageddon doesn't come to pass, you'll be stuck with some property, livestock, crops, so not all bad.Yep, seems the safer gamble to me. At least I'll be happier than renting.
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sounds easy considering I haven't bought anything from Amazon in years
You and me both my friend.
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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
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
Exactly.
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sounds easy considering I haven't bought anything from Amazon in years
Right? One week of not buying things from Amazon is fucking nothing. They’ve proven over and over that they’re evil and should be boycotted. Do people seriously buy something every week from Amazon? That’s like addiction shit.
Just stop buying from Amazon. I reached that tipping point like twelve horrific things ago. If you’re still using it, you’re just kind of a bad person with zero self control.
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That's not a boycott. That's waiting until payday to shop.
There needs to be a succinct way to say "Never shop Amazon again if possible. If you absolutely have no other option, don't do it March 7-14."
It's never easy to go cold turkey. It's much easier to create lasting change after first trying things in smaller doses.
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Honestly its just too easy to entirely cut them out of your life, coming from a heavy user previously. Alexas are gone. Prime canceled. Chase card closed. It was tough for one day, but now I feel great knowing I am not contributing to my own disenfranchisement. Also, saving lots of money after killing my consumption addiction.
I highly recommend it!
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This is too weak and virtue oriented.
That said, I guess its better than nothing. Focusing on promoting alternatives however would probably be a little more effective. Amazon has a lot of weird niche products that I've struggled to find else where from trust-able sellers.
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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.
I appreciate your feedback. Moving more local is definitely a goal. I buy a lot of specialized books which I can’t find at small bookshops so I tend to gravitate to larger companies.
All that being said, I’m going to downvote your comment because I can find no credible sources that supports your claim that Amazon owns Barnes & Nobel. I’d be happy to change my mind if you provide sources, but I dislike misinformation.
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I've been boycotting Amazon since the days when they were an ugly data grabbing bookstore and I'll happily go on until the end of time.
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I appreciate your feedback. Moving more local is definitely a goal. I buy a lot of specialized books which I can’t find at small bookshops so I tend to gravitate to larger companies.
All that being said, I’m going to downvote your comment because I can find no credible sources that supports your claim that Amazon owns Barnes & Nobel. I’d be happy to change my mind if you provide sources, but I dislike misinformation.
