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How to Quit Amazon
A step-by-step guide to ending this toxic relationship.
Amazon workers are on strike. Instead of asking how this will affect you, let’s think about the reasons workers are going without pay this holiday season. Below is a step-by-step guide to ending your toxic relationship with Amazon and its subsidiaries, like Audible, Whole Foods, and Goodreads.
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Why you should break up with Amazon
Corporate Greed, Monopolistic Strategies, and Impact on Workers
Remember when Amazon “only” sold books? Now they sell everything, with the goal of ensuring no one else can sell anything, outside of their platform (and profit). They’ve changed the landscape for all businesses when it comes to customer expectations about delivery of goods, ease of returns, and pricing. These might be good things, from a strictly consumer point of view. But there has to be a limit on how much corporate greed we are willing to subsidize.
Amazon’s warehouse system treats workers like robots, similar to the way Case Farms and other meatpacking plants abuse people’s bodies until they are broken and discarded. Over 53% of all warehouse injuries in the United States happen in Amazon facilities…
