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‘Has flat buttocks,’ ‘cusses when scared’: Amazon keeps shockingly specific customer profiles
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I feel llke you really need to watch the show, The Good Place. After you finish it, come back to your comments and you'll understand why I said this.
nah fuck that, the episode you're talking about is where they lost me.
"There's no ethical consumption under capitalism... therefore we're going to rewrite the rules of the cosmos to give you a pass for it, and now you're not obliged to fight it any more. You can go back to being happy little consumers now, all your guilt is absolved. Fremulon. NBCUniversal, a Comcast company."
I'm not talking about a specific episode—I'm way too ADHD for that—rather the message of the show in general. So knock it off with the strawman argument.
Reread my reply to the other person, and you'll understand the point I'm trying to make. Capitalism makes it impossible to be a perfect person, so until the system changes, do the best you can in the meantime.
I’ve seen the Good Place, but I’m not sure what you’re referencing sorry.
The point I'm making that you are making it seem llke it's a lot easier than it is to do the right thing. Not everyone has the time, money, and mental energy that you have to seek out more wholesome alternatives. Sometimes you just need something, and you need it now with minimal friction.
You are very lucky and privileged that you have the time and patience to put up with the hassle of doing business with a small company. There are way too many scammers and unreliable merchants out there and it's a game of Whack-A-Mole separating the legit small businesses from the bullshitters. I don't know about you, but I don't have to patience to wait up to a year for something that may or may not arrive. Some people like my girlfriend do. I don't.
I get where you're coming from and try my best not to fund the fascist machine, but I'm only human, and sometimes I just want to take the easy route and order something off of Amazon. And there's nothing wrong with that, because I know my heart is in the right place.
Nope on every account. But hey, enjoy your cheap ass Nazi playes from Amazon I guess.
I’m absolutely privileged, but that has nothing to do with my ability to shop any other place than Amazon.
But hey, if you need to keep lying to yourself have it.
Well good for you. I'm glad you're privileged. You can afford to get scammed every once in awhile by a small business. When that happens to me, I can't eat until my next paycheck (and it has happened before). So I go with the cheapest, more reliable option, because that's what I can afford.
Says the person with a stunted ability to introspect on how their material conditions define the way they are able to interact with the world