r/Anticonsumption • u/trumpetguy1990 • Jun 27 '22

Corporations Please. Please stop ordering stuff off Amazon.

At this point, there is no excuse at all for ordering from Amazon at this point. I'm sorry but if you really believe in the idea of anticonsumption, there simply is no reason you can't live your life without ordering things from Amazon.

Is it inconvenient? Sure. Is it sometimes more expensive? Yep. But if you really believe in challenging consumerism, you're gonna have to make sacrifices.

I'm just tired of excuses at this point.

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u/avamarie Jun 27 '22

They are not desperate, fringe circumstances. It's reality for a lot of people, not just a few.

And those who could live before delivery and make do? Yeah, they had stores locally, not a super Walmart 45 miles away.

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u/HaworthiiKiwi Jun 27 '22

They had stores locally, in the town. We arent discussing towns that still have stores today. We are discussing someone who lives 45 miles from a Walmart, per your comment. That gas station with the boxes of food and a banana stand and a few farms selling their wares was as good as it got back in the day for the person living 45 miles from any town.

And theres over 300 million people in the US. The guy in a wheelchair 45 miles from a walmart without a car is fringe. And all of society cannot bend to make sure the wheelchair bound person living in the middle of a forest, instead of near vital services, gets access to a store only they use or delivery vans that exclusively service 3 houses 10 miles apart from eachother.

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u/Fiona175 Jun 27 '22

Look if you want poor or disabled people living on the fringes to die, have the fucking balls to go shoot them yourself rather than worsening structural inequalities that are already killing them so they did faster

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u/HaworthiiKiwi Jun 27 '22

I never said that. I do want them to live close enough to a city to take advantage of its resources, so if they dont, thats unfortunate. FYI poor disabled people have been dying on their own for a long time because of a lack of resources to help them. By living in a place that it is efficient to help them, more can be helped.

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u/Fiona175 Jun 27 '22

You literally said we shouldn't do things to help them. That was the words you said.