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It's a shame people don't think like this when it comes to AWS though. That's where the bulk of their profits come from after all.
by alimbada 5y ago
It's a shame people don't think like this when it comes to AWS though. That's where the bulk of their profits come from after all.
- Fckd 5y agoI will move my apps out of AWS slowly within the next 6 months
- LukeEF 5y agoNo Netflix, no Disney plus, no HBO... Whatever about paying 10% more for a plastic rake, that's a bridge too far!
- junon 5y agoGoogle has similarly bad business practices and beyond AWS and GCP there's Microsoft's Azure, which I don't think a lot of companies are keen on switching to. Plus, most large companies care about profits. Not feelings or the death of a lowly worker. If you boycott the source you'll have to boycott the whole chain of things, and it'll have to be widespread and immediate for them to care. I just don't see it happening. We're stuck with this timeline it seems :/
- alimbada 5y ago> Google has similarly bad business practices Can you give some examples? Google don't run an online marketplace and they don't have huge warehouses or a a distribution network so I can't see how their business practices can be "similarly bad". I'm sure they do have bad business practices but I doubt they're in the realm of the inhumane conditions Amazon workers have to endure.
- praptak 5y agoI'd say consumer boycott makes you feel better and you should partake in it if you want to keep your integrity. Still it is not the way to change things: "All in all, I think it is a mistake to defend people’s rights with one hand tied behind our backs, using nothing except the individual option to say no to a deal. We should use democracy to organize and together impose limits on what the rich can do to the rest of us. That’s what democracy was invented for!" -- Richard Stallman
- junon 5y agoI agree with stallman's spirit but it's just as nebulous as boycotting - the average person cannot form their own democracy in a way that would effect change.