MicroWave@lemmy.world to News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 months agoAmazon tells employees to return to office five days a weekwww.cnbc.comexternal-linkmessage-square83fedilinkarrow-up1454
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minus-squarecriss_cross@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up9·3 months agoIt’s like trying to boycott Doordash for takeout. Even if you don’t use the app chances are the place you’re ordering from uses their drivers without you knowing.
minus-squaresudo@lemmy.todaylinkfedilinkarrow-up12·3 months agoI don’t order garbage on amazon or pay people to bring food to my house, and have been able to survive somehow. Wild.
minus-squareultranaut@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up9·3 months agoIf you use the internet you are using AWS. It is unavoidable at this point.
minus-squaresudo@lemmy.todaylinkfedilinkarrow-up9·3 months agoWhat is avoidable is a subscription to their retail store, with its own very severe workplace issues. And while it may be difficult or unrealistic to not be a cog in their web presence, people can still avoid being a direct consumer of that as well.
It’s like trying to boycott Doordash for takeout. Even if you don’t use the app chances are the place you’re ordering from uses their drivers without you knowing.
I don’t order garbage on amazon or pay people to bring food to my house, and have been able to survive somehow. Wild.
If you use the internet you are using AWS. It is unavoidable at this point.
What is avoidable is a subscription to their retail store, with its own very severe workplace issues.
And while it may be difficult or unrealistic to not be a cog in their web presence, people can still avoid being a direct consumer of that as well.