On: How Amazon pushes up prices all across the Internet

[fsckboy]

i'm guessing he means "and thereby putting a neighbor out of business."

recycling isn't convenient, but people do it with an eye to the greater good.

it's not hard to imagine that an Amazon monopoly is not for the greater good.

[WheatMillington → fsckboy]

I agree entirely that shopping on Amazon is immoral, but it's hard to understand how that extends to ALL online shopping.

[icantevenhold → WheatMillington]

I mean I was being a bit fatecious.

There are many good moral reasons for ordering stuff online, see my other reply.

But often I see peers ordering in groceries when there is a store literally 5 minutes down the street where they can buy everything - that’s immoral imo.

Not only because of the fucked up working conditions of delivery workers, the wasteful packaging and energy wasted on delivery vehicles but also because it’s an unhealthy and antisocial lifestyle.

And yea it kills small businesses often as well - not always ofc.

Take with a grain of salt.

Like with so many things the 80/20 rule is useful here