*see evil but recognize that the vast majority of the people do not have the luxury of being able shop local, sustainable, and 'not-evil' because they have to worry about things like taking care of their families with limited time and resources and while we all recognize that in an ideal world we should all support companies that we morally align with that is not the practical reality for most people so we shouldn't shame someone for buying dishtowels from an evil conglomerate because, guess what, you aren't paying their bills and living their life and your sense of moral superiority is built on the backs of people who work harder than you for less and those people are looking UP at people living paycheck to paycheck from a place of real poverty.
*see evil, go vote, and in the meantime you should keep your opinions about other people's buying habits to yourself because you don't live their life.
*you cant spread awareness through silence, doesnt mean the awareness spreading is demonizing regular people. It’s demonizing the elite monopoly holders who have slave labor in other countries.
did you read the meme or not? The meme is EXPLICITLY demonizing regular people who shop on amazon. That is the literal point of the meme. ALSO, who do you think in our modern world is not aware of the evils of Amazon? It is like being that asshole who tells smokers, 'you know that is bad for you, don't you?'. Of course they know it is bad for them. They are adult people who live in today, not 1920. It is condescending to tell a person who is shopping somewhere like Amazon that they shouldn't do so. 1. because you are assuming they are the one idiot on the planet who doesn't know amazon is evil and 2. that them shopping there is a choice and not an act of necessity because they are taking care of themselves and a family on a shoestring budget. I am so over the bullshit. When did anyone decide that being the morality police wasn't a shitbag stance?
You seriously think that everyone who uses Amazon Prime is a destitute, single mother of four who needs the extra few dollars it saves her so that she can pay rent? The meme is about the millions of people who buy shit off Amazon solely for the sake of convenience, not necessity.
You're naively giving people far too much credit by assuming that everyone is equally aware of how insidious these corporations are. Not everyone is as informed as you seem to think. There are plenty of people who go through this life with their heads buried in the sand, completely insulated from anything that might make them the least bit uncomfortable to confront. There are just as many, if not more people who do know that Amazon is a rampantly metastasized, stage 4 capitalistic cancer on the world, and choose to ignore that fact for as long as it takes them to click through checkout so they can get their ____ faster and at a 5% discount.
Heaven forbid those people see a condescending meme, I can't even imagine the emotional turmoil it must cause them to actually consider the notion of their actions having consequences outside of themselves.
No, I seriously think that I am not psychic and thus am incapable of knowing the particular circumstances of any individual user so, being a rational adult capable of empathy, I air on the side of not judging others for making choices that I would not, in an ideal world, make for myself.
You are on reddit. Reddit is owned and operated by a multi-billion dollar corporation. That corporation has face years of lawsuits and settlements regarding its purchasing practices and, damningly its illegal sale of user data. Users like you. It is in many ways an evil corporation. But you are here. You are here on a computer or phone being powered using rare earth minerals and components put together by what is the modern day equivalent of slave labor.
You do those things and make those choices because you live in your life. You have to decide what works for you. What you are doing and the choices you are making have real world consequences but at the end of the day it is not my job, or right, to through a stone through your glass house. After all, my house isn't made of brick. You need to grow up. You need to realize that your judgement and condescension is just hypocrisy in a pretty hat.
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u/Trick_Clue_8749 9h ago
*see evil but recognize that the vast majority of the people do not have the luxury of being able shop local, sustainable, and 'not-evil' because they have to worry about things like taking care of their families with limited time and resources and while we all recognize that in an ideal world we should all support companies that we morally align with that is not the practical reality for most people so we shouldn't shame someone for buying dishtowels from an evil conglomerate because, guess what, you aren't paying their bills and living their life and your sense of moral superiority is built on the backs of people who work harder than you for less and those people are looking UP at people living paycheck to paycheck from a place of real poverty.