Amazon relies on people’s love for good deals overriding any concerns about worker mistreatment
This week was an important one for me: it marked the one-year anniversary of my failed attempt to buy some bendy rollers. I wanted these because my cheap-ass curling iron was destroying my hair, and every time I used it I ended up with tiny burns all over my hands.
My plan was simple: I would catch the bus to a nearby food court, buy a bowl of my favourite soup for lunch and then pop into the adjacent Priceline to pick up the rollers. Just a classic afternoon of consumerism. Buy a few pieces of cheap plastic garbage I don’t really need, recirculate my wages, do my bit to continue the catastrophic destruction of the only planet that supports human life.
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