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Same reason they continue to buy clothes made in actual sweatshops, because most people don't care as much about the workers making their products as they do ab
by jacalata 11y ago
Same reason they continue to buy clothes made in actual sweatshops, because most people don't care as much about the workers making their products as they do about the cost (and sometimes quality) of those products.
- thecombjelly 11y agoThis isn't the same. In this case we know Amazon does it whereas with many products we don't know exactly how the item is produced. As well, AWS is not the best value whereas with commodity products the item may be the best value, from a monetary to quality standpoint. Not to mention, in most cases, technology companies can afford to pay more for a more ethical product even if AWS was the best value whereas for many people the price of a commodity is very important. Using AWS is either laziness, the "we use Java because everyone uses Java" syndrome, or internal inertia. The only partially excusable reason is internal inertia.