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You can borrow mine homie thank you for your service

That’s why I’m telling myself that my unemployment is a heroic assault on fascism.

You guys can afford subscriptions? I just make it toil for no reason because I’m a real capitalist

I was hoping last years shenanigans would have pushed Europe away from our tech companies. I don’t see much hope unless we can elect a new Congress that is willing to do Monopoly busting across the board.

For now I would just focus on that November election, a boycott is not as effective as monopoly busting and regulating. If you can organize your town and state to vote for someone competent it might be easier than asking people to boycott Amazon globally. Amazon hosts 1/3 of the internet and has government contracts. The Amazon prime subscribers are a drop in the barrel

The government, use the government. It’s our last chance to use the government to regulate corporations before they become the government

So the fine for price fixing is $100M and Amazon is worth $2 trillion so that’s like 20,000x bigger than the fine. I think they will survive this one gang

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.

Yea it will be interesting to see what happens to valve in the future. Without antitrust laws anything is possible.

Companies like Amazon and eBay exist to leverage to post office and their platform for profit. They both do the same thing to the same people.

Amazon hosts small stores too. Most small stores exist on both. They also host half the internet and government contracts so they don’t care if you use eBay. Your tax dollars use Amazon. Their beyond your reach as a consumer but not an educated citizen

Amazon is cheaper than eBay on every item I’ve looked at in the last 6 months. eBay has robbed me a few times in the last 6 months. What a wild ass suggestion.

eBay’s just as fucking bad? They monopolized your post office pricing and fix prices on their market place, they manipulate visibility and charge more for promotions. It’s the same scam with a different name lmao

I didn’t invest because I always thought they would get broken up as a monopoly.

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.

I think personal safety is more important than 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.

No bro water filters from Amazon are unethical, please expose yourself to lead because some guy on lemmy is virtue signaling /s

Feel free to provide goods to my rural community any time! You can’t believe that poor people have budget consideration and seek the cheapest product?

I boycott pretty much all the big corporations. I can’t really boycott Amazon because I am in a super rural part of the US and run a small business. Like most small businesses I purchase a lot of random doodads and thingamabobbers from china. Amazons monopoly on the US post office and their logistic network that gets bulk goods from china to my house is hard to live without. They fix more than prices, the whole economy is stacked in their favor. They basically won globalism and it was bad for the globe.

Valves scope is much smaller and less destructive. They keep their customers due to loyalty and the investment into a steam library.