Amazon shutting down their Smile charity program.
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@gamingonlinux Does that mean that if I use Amazon after 20.02. I will now be spending money on a platform that completely disregards as many labor laws as it legally can while enriching the already rich and powerful, instead of a platform that, with their charity called Smile (that means it's good), helps oh so many people in need? @gamingonlinux PR speak for "We don't want to continue this program that reduces our profits. Please continue to buy things for charities so our profits are bigger than before. " @gamingonlinux what is even worse is the messaging. I hate when corporations try to frame changes like this as "we supported too much and we're stretched thin, but this will allow us to do better" and at the same time say "buy the charities stuff from their wishlist." It is the same kind of mentality that public educators have to endure. I know corporations exist to make money, but the constant greed everywhere is getting exhausting. @gamingonlinux well Jeff does need to finance his new super yacht, guess they had to cut costs somehow, or is it that there isn’t a tax break on it anymore? 🤔 @gamingonlinux I've never heard of it here in Spain, I guess they dindn't try to show it to the rest of the world... @gamingonlinux Well that's disappointing. It felt slightly less depressing buying things on Amazon when I knew a charity was getting some of it. @gamingonlinux screw Amazon. I’m so tired of them becoming more of a monopolistic monster. I cancelled a bunch of my services through them last night. You know they only shut this down so they could keep that .5% too. |
@gamingonlinux I guess we can stop conning ourselves that when we use Amazon we're just profiting a horrible soulless corporation , no more no less :)