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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]whats wrong with Prime? [/quote]

Probably triggered by the sight of bezos bending the knee at the inauguration yesterday. He doesn’t have much to do with Amazon though. Most of the big tech bosses were there yesterday sniveling anyway. There’s no escaping it. [/quote]

Triggered is right  :roll: [/quote]
Why do you feel the need to bully and belittle people who are doing something different than you? [/quote]

DP here.  Because it's so stupid to have this attitude of "punishing" a business because you don't like a CEO or what have you.  First of all, it's a business.  Second of all, if I showed you what all the big businesses do I will bet you a big bag of money that 98% of them have done or are doing something just as hypocritical, unsavory, borderline ethical, etc. as Bezos et al.  They may not be at Trump's Inauguration and they may not be high profile with actions attracting much publicity, but running a big business is just not sunshine and roses.

Now, you can say - but I see Bezos and I want to teach him a lesson!  But that's so immature and foolish.  You don't teach him a lesson.  If 50% of Prime customers left, he would still be doing remarkably well.  He's built his business.  Between AWS, how many customers he already has, his other investments/current business built up, you can't touch him.  It's just such a stupid thing to do and it makes people who haven't thought through this kind of thing just end up hurting themselves.  Prime is a service.  As a mom, let me tell you, it's a lifesaver.  As a consumer, the options you get on prime when you don't have to worry about ship costs on 99% of what I want is truly awesome.  I hate Bezos too.  But I don't hate him enough to hate myself and be so impractical as to believe that by denying myself, I'm actually hurting him at all.  You can find someone much more of value to be noble for.

It's like climate change.  It's like people who won't use A/C or whatever.  OK - you won't make a dent in anything except to sweat your ass off.  It's your choice but to promote this idea of nobility that you're somehow sacrificing to save all of us on earth is ridiculous.  In the end, you hurt yourself.  I say, use your A/C, drive, fly, eat meat, don't worry about how you're affecting climate change via your habits.  Instead - [b]DONATE to people who are researching solutions to how we're going to live when it'll be too hard to achieve a stable climate.  OR, help think of solutions for when that time comes when none of us will be doing well.  Look into where you can function when climate change hits your home - start saving up or something for a second home.[/b]  Do something meaningful.  But to just say - oh - what a horrible man Bezos is - I'm going to boycott Prime because I think he's wrong!  That's just such a dumb reaction.  You would need to boycott 1000 other companies or you are a total hypocrite because he's not the only one bowing down to Trump, guaranteed. Now, if you truly don't find yourself needing Prime as a business, that's legit.  But be practical and honest about it.  Prime is not just books for sure, there is a reason why Bezos is a billionaire, don't kid yourself on how good a business Amazon really is. [/quote]

It all matters. This is how you’re choosing to change things, and that’s fine—great, even! But that doesn’t invalidate other methods of trying to make change.

You’ve created a strawman—“you think you’re teaching Bezos a lesson, but you’re not—you’re just punishing yourself!”—but if you actually listen to the people on this thread, they’re saying something else: they want to reduce support of businesses they believe are doing harm in the world. And for many, they don’t feel like leaving Amazon costs them much since the shopping experience is so janky. Many of us on here are moms, and leaving Amazon has not changed our qualify of life. It’s indispensable for you, and that’s fine. No one here is telling you to change your habits. But  you seem very invested in convincing other people that their decision to stop using Amazon is wrong and bad. Why is that?[/quote]

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