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by bamboozled 847 days ago
Bezos getting richer? Get used to it.
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I don’t have to contribute to it, as much as I can help it.
What do you use instead of Amazon?
Anything else. I live in Switzerland and prefer to use galaxus, Migros, inter discount, mueller, foletti, or buy second hand. Absolutely anything I can to not buy from Amazon even if the alternative is 10–15% more expensive.
What do you hate so much about Amazon that makes the alternatives so much better ? Genuinely ?
What's not to hate? Exploiting workers, union busting, tax evasion, waste, pollution...
Can you give us some evidence that Galaxus warehouse workers are somehow less "exploited" than Amazon's Swiss warehouse workers?

Or is this a deal like complaining about Apple supposedly using slave labor, while blithely ignoring the fact that every other computer and cell phone comes out of essentially the same Chinese factories? If anything, the people who crank out low-end Android phones probably get paid less than Apple's workers. I'm nearly 100% certain they don't get paid more.

I'm skeptical that Galaxus warehouses are worker's paradises, because I did a few stints at warehouse work as a youngster.

You know what? Warehouse work sucks, and it sucked long before Amazon came along.

I (sadly) don’t think much of this is isolated to Amazon. I think it’s shareholders that demand this of most corporations.

I honestly think the packaging my Amazon stuff comes in is much more eco friendly than the actual product packaging itself.