• BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today
    2 months

    A study commissioned by an Amazon-funded group found that the regulations could increase the cost of delivery by as much as $5.20 per package, or $664 annually per household.

    This is such bullshit. There is no reason that it has to cost more for the customer, it only means Amazon makes less profit. Jeff Bezos could simply make slightly less income, and it might mean it will take an extra year or two to reach trillionaire status.

    • BrickEater@lemmy.world
      2 months

      Or, alternatively, stop fucking using Amazon and go to the store? Like I don’t get how that’s a debate.

  • Leviathan@fedinsfw.appEnglish
    2 months

    Mandani is just straight up doing what every single city, state and what the Fed itself would do if it cared more about the people than enriching investors and friends. It becomes extremely clear when you see him passing little laws like this what capitalists have been doing to regular people while creating a new ruling class of billionaires.

  • andyburke@fedia.io
    2 months

    I ain’t reading NYT but if Amazon is against it I just assume I’m for it.

  • BrickEater@lemmy.world
    2 months

    Why is no ones first thought, fine I’ll just stop using Amazon? Is everyone so addicted to bezos’ teat that they can’t imagine going to the store?

    • mojo_raisin@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2 months

      Amazon has done much to eliminate it’s competition. We used to have Radio Shack, Fry’s, and Toys R Us, and Barnes & Noble, lost of small businesses, etc, now most or all of that is gone and we have Amazon, Wal-mart or other similarly bad company, and a few random small business that might not fit your needs.

      Sometimes when I have tried to avoid Amazon by going directly to the company, I find that they sell through Amazon anyways. Amazon needs to be split up by the government. These companies have intentionally made themselves too big and diverse to effectively boycott.

  • Cherry@piefed.socialEnglish
    2 months

    Great read. The workers need to be behind this and stand up too.

    Plenty of interference and shilling from Amazon. I hope the legislation passes.

    https://archive.ph/WRC2o

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  • Ava@piefed.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    2 months

    “This would drive up costs to customers” is always fun when it talks about a human component of the cost, because it’s pretty transparently saying they’re currently relying on worker exploitation.

    • T-Rex91@feddit.orgEnglish
      2 months

      On the other Hand. Local Retailers could get better and cheaper alternatives again. Or you just use other Online Stores here in Germany Amazon is almost never the cheapest.