Need I really list the ways?
(1) Amazon warehouse jobs are utter fucking crap, even as compared to the black pit of awfulness that’s brick-and-mortar retail. Utter monotonous work without even an opportunity to interact with interesting customers occasionally. Warehouse workers are basically bio-robots, soon to be replaced by real robots…
(2) Amazon doesn’t allow for anonymous (cash) payment, and in fact, makes money tracking users’ purchase habits. Local stores simply don’t have the same kind of computing power behind them. Thankfully.
Lastly, I have no interest in living in the woods. I have more interest living in a less-developed part of the world where technology is significantly behind that of the US suburbs. And where cash and other anonymous means of payment are commonly accepted by necessity.
I like being around people. I can do without corporate and/or goverment snooping, which makes my ideal area a poorer one, where there’s less money to be made marketing to it, and where people don’t care enough to focus government resources on it.
Probably opening Pandora’s box, but how does shopping on amazon destroy privacy, and “decent” jobs? Also what harm is this causing? Are we talking about big corp. versus local retailers like everyone was worried about 15 years ago (aka Walmart/Budweiser/McDonalds). Well we can see what happened with that now that sales and market share of all 3 have been consistently sliding. Privacy? Well like I said, privacy is a very subjective and individual thing; and should be handled as such. If you want more of it, feel free to not use internet; abstain from social media; move to the woods and live off the land.
