I like to think if a huge amount of people stopped using amazon, meta, google, and Microsoft products we would at least get some power back from billionaire scum.
People can’t though. They are fucking addicted and will not change no matter what happens. And ive given up trying to explain why they need to change their ways because they dont listen anyways.
I genuinely believe that if you want to completely distance yourself from all of these companies and completely insulate yourself from their actions, you’re just going to have to cancel your internet subscription. Full on local net only. Or just throw yoyr comp in the river.
Or make all tech companies public, but we’re not there yet.
Honestly though don’t get too caught up in it. It’s the same as paper straws, a lot of this is constructed to make you feel like personal consumption has any leverage on any of this when the real consuming powers have nothing to do with us at all. You think Amazon gives a shit about a Prime subscription when AWS is taking a cut of every circular A.I. transaction that’s quickly trying to crash the economy into the ground?
Just don’t stress youself out about it, and don’t judge anyone too harshly. Unless they’re a real asshole about it.
Yep I get it. Just like I really try not to waste as much as possible and recycle what I possibly can and all but theres just some shit in plastic you have to throw (like wrapping on vegetables or meat packs etc). I hate doing it but theres no alternatives other than eating a cab of beans every single day for the rest of my life, and I’m not going to do that while the billionaires take jets to epstein island 3 times a day.
Okay good that’s totally reasonable. Been running into people who seem dead set on social and mental suicide because they think giving anyone money means you’ve adopted the entirety of their morals as well. Not great.
Yeah its not worth going to those extremes. Like anyone else I’m selfish. Of course all of us going to live in caves would be far better for the environment but no one is doing that.
Dude I would totally return to subsistence farming and taking a mule drawn cart to town if it meant I got to keep my internet connection and modern plumbing. The only thing keeping me from it now is property value inflation and the speculative housing market.
I like to think if a huge amount of people stopped using amazon, meta, google, and Microsoft products we would at least get some power back from billionaire scum.
People can’t though. They are fucking addicted and will not change no matter what happens. And ive given up trying to explain why they need to change their ways because they dont listen anyways.
I genuinely believe that if you want to completely distance yourself from all of these companies and completely insulate yourself from their actions, you’re just going to have to cancel your internet subscription. Full on local net only. Or just throw yoyr comp in the river.
Or make all tech companies public, but we’re not there yet.
Pretty much. But people dont even attempt to try at ALL.
So you’ve met the median voter.
Honestly though don’t get too caught up in it. It’s the same as paper straws, a lot of this is constructed to make you feel like personal consumption has any leverage on any of this when the real consuming powers have nothing to do with us at all. You think Amazon gives a shit about a Prime subscription when AWS is taking a cut of every circular A.I. transaction that’s quickly trying to crash the economy into the ground?
Just don’t stress youself out about it, and don’t judge anyone too harshly. Unless they’re a real asshole about it.
Yep I get it. Just like I really try not to waste as much as possible and recycle what I possibly can and all but theres just some shit in plastic you have to throw (like wrapping on vegetables or meat packs etc). I hate doing it but theres no alternatives other than eating a cab of beans every single day for the rest of my life, and I’m not going to do that while the billionaires take jets to epstein island 3 times a day.
Okay good that’s totally reasonable. Been running into people who seem dead set on social and mental suicide because they think giving anyone money means you’ve adopted the entirety of their morals as well. Not great.
Yeah its not worth going to those extremes. Like anyone else I’m selfish. Of course all of us going to live in caves would be far better for the environment but no one is doing that.
Dude I would totally return to subsistence farming and taking a mule drawn cart to town if it meant I got to keep my internet connection and modern plumbing. The only thing keeping me from it now is property value inflation and the speculative housing market.
You could join the hudderites or amish
IIRC, most of their revenue these days is from cloud services and not their retail/media.