alt Hacker News"why would I not order on Amazon and save myself $50?"
Because of principles?
It seems that in the past 20 years the concept of boycotting a company in response to their behaviour has been lost.
The last widespread boycott I remember was from the late 2000s against Sony, I can't even remember why ( rootkits on CDs? ) but I'm still boycotting them now as it's an automatic reaction.
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Not entirely lost, just that at this point we are actually boycotting all companies, and to get anything we need to choose among them.
Unfortunately not many people have principles which overcome the desire for convenience. I stick to my principles hard, so much so I will happily go without convenience items, but I very rarely meet anyone else who does.
oh please. where do you stop boycotting? can you name a few companies that aligns with your principles? I feel like every major company I deal with has skeletons in its closet. if i were to start boycotting companies, i'll have a hard time getting anything done.
(1) I'm not aware of anything amazon did that would go against my principles that turned out to be true.
(2) Unbending idealism is self-destructive. We wouldn't even be able to touch money, nevermind credit cards, if we were fully principled.