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I agree with the message, but these two points following each other feels a little hypocritical:

“Amazon is supporting new nuclear plants” and “Amazon has a poor climate record”

Nuclear power is the most effective way to get out of climate change. Caring about climate change and being against nuclear power at the same time is a contradictory position to take, and needlessly puritanical.

If we could only rely on renewables, that would be very nice. That is not currently the case. We should strive to have more renewable energy, while keeping in mind nuclear power is here to stay and even be expanded as we eliminate carbon emitting sources of energy.

I do not need reasons, I need ways.

The missing reason is that you should just buy less anyway and if you avoid Amazon it is slightly harder to just buy stuff.

That being said, if you need it cheap, quick, and you cannot source it locally, just buy it on Amazon. There is no ethical consumption under capitalism. You are not guilty of a moral crime by using them when the need exists.

Ugh, here's a new wrinkle (at least to me), that literally showed up in my inbox as I was reading this post.

I'm actively trying to avoid Amazon, researched and found the site of a small company making the product I'm looking for, and then find out that Amazon is handling their shipping.

No mention of this anywhere on their site.

I feel like I found a new reason to avoid amazon every time I looked for a product not being sold under some random fake brand name. I cancelled prime over a year ago and started shopping elsewhere. It costs more, but the quality of just about anything is higher.

I avoid amazon for the same reason I avoid walmart: everything is a simulacrum of an actual product. Somehow, amazon is even worse than walmart.

So yeah, boycott amazon and shop at places selling actual products.

Well, 8 reasons anyway. Only one I needed is Amazon is a shit company that will try to squeeze money out of you anyway they can.

FTFY: *10 reasons to avoid capitalism

If it's not Amazon, it's another shitty company which exploits everyone and everything to maximize profits without regard to the well-being of humanity and life itself.

We need fundamental, systemic changes which grab those malpractices by their roots and rip them out. Our life will not get better if we continue to allow corporations like Amazon to exist.

Purge them from the face of the earth. Life is too precious to be sacrificed for the sake of greed and corporate dominance. A new paradigm must emerge, one that values people over profits and prioritizes the health of our planet. We need to foster a society built on mutual respect, fairness, and sustainability, where every individual has the opportunity to thrive. Only then can we hope to create a future that benefits all of humanity instead of a few.

Canceled my prime subscription last month. No regrets

What I don't get is HOW people shops on Amazon, their search engine is the shittiest I've seen in a long time: "you searched for AMD RX1234 video card; here is a RX1235, a RX1024, and another one from a completely different brand! People also searched for other that is maybe related to that"

I kind of stopped reading at "amazon suports (at least use proper grammar) new nuclear power plants."

Somewhat ruined article's/website's credibility with that one sentence

It's a real shame, because amazon was able to deliver to some very remote communities in the north. It was the first time they really had access to shit that big cities had without having to fly down there and carry everything back.

I’ve got a $25 Amazon gift card sitting around that I don’t know what to do with. My mother-in-law gave it to me for Xmas, and I don’t shop on Amazon.

Pretty weak 10. Pick one or two and make a compelling article, I'm already trying to quit. We don't have to make up stuff like "JFC nuclear power!?"