• Zloubida
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    241 year ago

    It shouldn’t be indeed, but unfortunately it is. We can’t just hide our personal responsibility behind the State when the State is deficient.

    • Refurbished Refurbisher
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      211 year ago

      Unfortunately, organizing on the scale necessary to defeat Amazon is damn near impossible. I think doing so politically is our best bet.

    • @[email protected]
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      171 year ago

      Our personal responsibility is to make the State not deficient though, not a boycott of amazon.com or whatever you’re suggesting. A boycott of even their digital and physical storefronts probably wouldn’t even change much, since Amazon makes most of their profit via AWS. Something like 33% of all internet traffic goes through AWS in some fashion, so boycotting that is even harder. The only real option I can see is to make the State regulate them in some manner because all the people in the world can’t fight a trillion dollar company themselves.

      • @[email protected]
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        1 year ago

        Why not both? I’m happy to avoid buying Amazon (do I really need to avoid walking to the store?) while advocating for crackdowns on them.

    • @Tavarin
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      101 year ago

      There are certain things I can’t get anywhere near me from anyone other than Amazon, and I live in a city of 6 million people. Sadly I need to use Amazon about once a month. Getting groceries from them is ridiculous though.

      • @[email protected]
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        41 year ago

        Aren’t there any online shopping alternatives to amazon? Are they really the only online vendor who is allowed to mail stuff to your 6 million people city?

        • @Tavarin
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          21 year ago

          Not ones that can get me the things I need within the month.

      • Hup!
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        1 year ago

        Nah you’re just bad at online shopping.

        • @Tavarin
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          21 year ago

          Nah, some shit would take weeks to get to me from the few other alternate vendors, and I;m not waiting that long.

          • @drenchtoast
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            -11 year ago

            I think you just proved their point lol.

            • @Tavarin
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              41 year ago

              Hey, if anyone else or any store can get me the things I need within the week I 100% go there. but no one else is stocking specific temperature controllers anywhere near me. I can’t get 3D printer resin anywhere that isn’t a 40 minute drive away. Specific wiring I need, AliExpress is the only other company with it. Amazon stocks a lot of niche things that no one else is carrying.

              • @LukeMedia
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                11 year ago

                I wish RadioShack survived

                • @Tavarin
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                  21 year ago

                  Same. I also used to have a great store near me that carried random electronic parts, motors, hobby shit, bits of hardware. Any time I needed to fix something, or wanted to make a little device I could go there for supplies. RIP Active Surplus.

                  • @LukeMedia
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                    21 year ago

                    I really wish I had a store like that near me. I hate being in the middle of a project and having to wait 2+ days to finish it if I end up needing something. There’s a microcenter location that’s supposed to open near me within a few years, which will be nice