Amazon linked to trafficking of workers in Saudi Arabia, who say they were tricked into toiling and living in grueling, squalid conditions::Dozens of contract workers at Amazon warehouses say they were tricked into toiling and living in grueling, squalid conditions
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"Human trafficking is bad, but I’m not going to inconvenience myself over it.”
You just have to put in a little more effort. I have avoided Amazon for a year now by buying from smaller shops found through price comparison portals. Also, I buy more stuff in the local brick-and-mortar shops. And I buy less bullshit. All in all, my live hasn’t gotten any worse.
The alternative is to do the action of not shopping at Amazon and then over time you’ll learn how to shop without it.
You don’t need to stop 100% immediately either but can wean yourself off of it.
I’ve not shopped on Amazon for like 5 years now. I just buy a lot less crap to be honest.
I buy a lot off eBay. Not that they’re perfect, but at least they’re not owned by Bezoz.
Get. A. Password. Manager. Dashlane is very easy to generate and save strong passwords for any site you shop on, plus it can save credit card details to autofill.
I haven’t purchased anything from Amazon in three years. Getting stuff directly from the manufacturer is a better experience for products where you know what brand you want anyway. Bookshop.org for books. Best Buy for electronics. Wayfair or Overstock for home goods. It’s genuinely not any less convenient when you consider the amount of trash and fake reviews you have to wade through on Amazon these days.
A password manager doesn’t replace that Amazon is a marketplace with thousands up on thousands of products in one location for users to search through.
The person you are replying to is less thinking about entering passwords and more about “now my personal details are across multiple different services half of which I don’t remember their names”
2 to 5 is enough. Specific shops depend on your location and interests of course. Use one of the often 10 or so different payment systems if you don’t want to leave credit card info.
Once my payment account was empty due to a large bill and Amazon wanted intrusive banking details for my very first Amazon purchase. Living fine without Amazon since then.
There’s Walmart. I’m sure they haven’t done anything bad…
“The price of convenience is always high.
Sometimes it is justified, sometimes it is not.
However, trading basic privacy protections for “but it’s so easy” is how the dark times happen. “
Replace ‘privacy protections’ with ‘human rights’, and once again my point stands.
“Thank you for your service”… don’t worry about the optics.
amirite?
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Momtaj Mansur is one of dozens of current and former workers who claim they were tricked and exploited by recruiting agencies in Nepal and labor supply firms in Saudi Arabia and then suffered under harsh conditions at Amazon’s warehouses.
“Providing safe, healthy and fair working conditions is a requirement of doing business with Amazon in every country where we operate, and we are deeply concerned that some of our contract workers in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia … were not treated with the standards we set forth, and the dignity and respect they deserve,” the statement said.
Amnesty said it collaborated with another nongovernmental organization to interview 22 workers who report being subjected to abusive practices, including being forced to pay large recruiting fees and being deceived about the terms of their employment.
When his friends couldn’t support him any more and Al-Mutairi didn’t find him another job, he decided to ask his family to take out a big loan so he could pay the exit penalty and go back to Nepal.
Yadav, one of the workers who says he was fired after being falsely accused of theft, says Al-Mutairi managers refused to let him go home to Nepal until he threatened to “record a video complaining about you and commit suicide”.
Contributors: freelance journalist Shyam Karki; Delphine Reuter from the ICIJ; Andy Lehren and Anna Schecter from NBC News; Tanka Dhakal, Eman Alqaisi, Mara Kessler and Hoda Osman from Arab Reporters for Investigative Journalism
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I don’t know if you accept feedback, but the second paragraph has no real context.
