How my retail roller derby made me choose between Amazon and the malls

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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