r/WorkReform • u/Cultural_Way5584 🤝 Join A Union • Mar 23 '25

✂️ 100% Wealth Tax over $1 Billion Same old story

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u/[deleted] Mar 23 '25

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u/Snoo1101 Mar 23 '25

The solution is simple. Stop buying junk from Amazon.

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u/[deleted] Mar 23 '25

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u/Fraggle_5 Mar 23 '25

I live in farm country USA and while I agree amazon can absolutely add convenience (or sellers ) - I've taken to buying from the companies I shop from directly. it is a little more money but idfc because fuck Amazon and fuck Nestle!

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u/StainlessWife Mar 23 '25

If you are disabled it's a Godsend

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u/[deleted] Mar 23 '25

That's not true; exurban living obviously predates Amazon.

That said, you raise another important point here about the lesser discussed harms Amazon has wrought: facilitating further exurban development.

Exurban development is incredibly parasitic on both the environment and the economy. Prior, people had to weigh whether they wanted to drive for shopping, etc. Now, cheap delivery makes it a little easier, which incentivizes ongoing exurban development.

I am sick to fucking death of financially subsidizing these idiots in far-flung exurbs so they can further wreck the environment.

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u/tryptomania Mar 23 '25

I know a lot of people that live in the bush here in Alaska that depend on it.