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    Ross Barkan‏Verified account @RossBarkan 11 Jul 2020

    Remarkable how boycotts of Amazon never take off or begin in the first place. It's easy for liberals to give up one type of beans but quite another to make their lives slightly less convenient by denying revenue to the one of the very worst corporations on planet Earth

    7:35 AM - 11 Jul 2020
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    • Melquiades Gagarin 🇵🇭🇵🇷 LifeofaLifer Protect each other & Exterminate the billionaires Clark Humphrey please let me sleep Billy Looch n____l Friendly Blobfish Le Lobby Queerslamo-Marxiste dit "Trans Rights"
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      2. Ross Barkan‏Verified account @RossBarkan 11 Jul 2020

        It's actually pretty easy to boycott Amazon. Buy your books from a bookstore or the publisher. Get your groceries from a regular grocery store or supermarket. Pass on a Prime account. Your life doesn't change much and you help the world in a small way

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      3. Ross Barkan‏Verified account @RossBarkan 11 Jul 2020

        For people who wanted to shovel away billions in tax revenue for an Amazon HQ, no, the jobs created there would not be helping NY's unemployment crisis. The restaurant and tourism industries are decimated. Out of work waiters or bartenders aren't working at Amazon.

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      4. Ross Barkan‏Verified account @RossBarkan 11 Jul 2020

        Obvious point I should make is I support the government ending Amazon's monopoly. In the meantime, use your purchasing power elsewhere

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      2. jamison‏ @jhermann 11 Jul 2020
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        AWS accounted for 77% of Amazon's profit in Q1 2020https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-earnings-aws-amazon-web-services-10-billion-quarterly-revenue-2020-4 …

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      3. jamison‏ @jhermann 11 Jul 2020
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        Andhttps://gizmodo.com/i-tried-to-block-amazon-from-my-life-it-was-impossible-1830565336 …

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      2. brianvan, back to slightly less good behavior‏ @brianvan 11 Jul 2020
        Replying to @RossBarkan

        While I'm quite aware that almost anything for sale on Amazon is effectively available elsewhere, it's also the case that Amazon has introduced a vast set of efficiencies with Prime, its customer service & the size of its catalog. (I don't order books or groceries there, tho)

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      3. brianvan, back to slightly less good behavior‏ @brianvan 11 Jul 2020
        Replying to @brianvan @RossBarkan

        The only other online store that is comparable right now seems to be Walmart, another company I'm loathe to give money to. I do wonder, though, if Amazon (the store) would be exposed by efficiencies in e-commerce that are increasingly adopted by smaller merchants

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      2. nicky‏ @marketanalcyst 11 Jul 2020
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        A boycott is an ineffectual waste of time, practically impossible to organize and would solve nothing. Getting a job at a warehouse and organizing a union would be a million times more helpful.

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      1.  🌴 🏖Welcome to Jaren Springs 🌴 ☀️‏ @jarengeorge 11 Jul 2020
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        Its easy to talk about everyone who wants the best things in the world and politicized them. Welcome to Twitter

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