So what do we do about this? Should I cancel my Prime membership and never order from Amazon again?
2. You're not responsible for fraudulent charges, so worrying about major retailers having your credit card number isn't really reasonable. I don't recommend saving your credit card in any store website. Enter it each time so they can't store it.
But I realize these are symbolic. You can't affect a company by purchasing decisions. I still shop at Whole Foods even after the buyout.
The idea you can vote with your dollars is bullshit and ignores the power these companies have with their advertising.
It's not. You're just annoyed noone is 'voting' with you.
Selling things in the USA profitably on the basis of cheap labor in countries with weak environmental and labor protection should not be so simple.
A tariff program is probably not even necessary because overwhelmingly American corporations can simply be taxed for their import activities in a VAT manner and the problem goes away.
It would devastate the poor worldwide. Nations that are rich are the only ones that can spend to care about the environment.
If you want clean air in India and China you want a middle class that demands it because they're not starving.
Jay Kay described the inspiration for Automaton: "in recognition of the rise of artificial intelligence and technology in our world today and how we as humans are beginning to forget the more pleasant, simple and eloquent things in life and in our environment including our relationship with one another as human beings"