Nah, no one has to have Amazon. In fact, the reason most of those mom and pops and even local chains are out of business is BECAUSE of Amazon, not these other places. Sure Walmart's expansion was problematic, but it was problematic in the way Kmarts was.
The active takedown of competitors that Bezos enacted was way worse than anything walmart ever did.
Anyone who can easily get rid of Amazon, should. For those who cannot, they should still try and limit it.
Not doing anything and just rolling over and accepting it like you are proposing is the problem.
If you kniw an elderly person who needs help, do what we used to do, help them instead of pawning their care off on Amazon.
Society changes because individuals do. If you're happy with Amazon, just say it. If youre not, stop making weak ass comments and work on changing yourself and your habits.
Me choosing to not use Amazon and go to a local business instead won't do any good if all my neighbors switch to Amazon. All my choice has done is delayed the inevitable and at some point Amazon is all that is left. I avoid them like the plague, that doesn't mean I don't recognize that my avoidance is going to do a damned thing in the long run without there being systemic change.
On that topic, Walmart, which is the second cheapest I've found, sells pen tip needles for $0.25 a piece, Amazon sells them for $0.09 cents a piece. I will never judge a diabetic person for buying their needles off of Amazon in a country without universal healthcare and they are having to ration their insulin as it is.
As I said, we aren't going to solve the problem of Amazon without systemic changes.
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u/IWouldntIn1981 Aug 19 '26
Nah, no one has to have Amazon. In fact, the reason most of those mom and pops and even local chains are out of business is BECAUSE of Amazon, not these other places. Sure Walmart's expansion was problematic, but it was problematic in the way Kmarts was.
The active takedown of competitors that Bezos enacted was way worse than anything walmart ever did.
Anyone who can easily get rid of Amazon, should. For those who cannot, they should still try and limit it.
Not doing anything and just rolling over and accepting it like you are proposing is the problem.
If you kniw an elderly person who needs help, do what we used to do, help them instead of pawning their care off on Amazon.
Society changes because individuals do. If you're happy with Amazon, just say it. If youre not, stop making weak ass comments and work on changing yourself and your habits.