Word is, 20% of Americans are in favor of boycotting companies sucking up to Donald Trump. If you’ve sworn off Google, Microsoft, Facebook and Twitter/X, and scrubbed your amazon.com account, good for you. There are all sorts of reasons for breaking up with these companies besides the fact that they’re collaborating with a criminal and a fascist.
One collaborator, America’s Second Oligarch, Jeff Bezos, owns much of the global economy: 2lemetry; AbeBooks; Accept.com; Alexa and IVONA Software; Alexa Internet; Amazon; Amiato; Amie Street; Annapurna Labs; AppThwack; Art19; Audible; Avalon Books; Back to Basics Toys; Bebo; Bezos Day One Fund; Biba Systems; Blink Home; Blue Origin; Body Labs; Bookpages; BookSurge; Box Office Mojo; Brilliance Audio; BuyVIP; Canvas Technology; Cloostermans; Cloud9 IDE; CloudEndure; ClusterK; Colis Privé; ComiXology; Convergence Corporation; Curse; CustomFlix; Digital Photography Review; Dispatch; Do.com; Double Helix Games; e-Niche Incorporated; E8 Storage; Eero; Egghead Software; Elemental Technologies; Emvantage Payments; Evi; Fabric.com; GameSparks; GlowRoad; Goo Technologies; GoodGame; Goodreads; Graphiq; Harvest.ai; IGDB; IMDb; INLT; iRobot; Joyo.com; Junglee; Kiva Systems; Leep Technology Inc.; Lexcycle; Liquavista; LiveBid.com; LoveFilm; Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM); MindCorps Incorporated; Mobipocket; NICE; One Medical; Orbeus; OurHouse.com; Partpic; Pillpack; PlanetAll; Pushbutton; Quidsi; Reflexive Entertainment; Ring; Rooftop Media; Safaba Translation Systems; Shelfari; Shoefitr; Shopbop; Sizmek Ad Server; Sizmek Dynamic Creative Optimization; Small Parts; SnapTell; Souq.com; Spirit.ai; Sqrrl; Strio.AI; Tapzo; Teachstreet; Telebook; TenMarks Education; TextPayMe; The Book Depository; The Washington Post; Thinkbox Software; Toby Press; Tool Crib of the North; Touchco; TSO Logic; Twitch; Umbra 3D; UpNext; Veeqo; Westland; Whole Foods; Wickr; Wing.ae; Withoutabox; Wondery; Woot; Yap; Zappos; Zoox.
Many if not most of the corporations we are forced to deal with are just plain evil. Questionable lists of so-called “ethical” companies can’t be believed — some actually include insurance, pharma, and tech companies known to be highly un-ethical. Until people have finally had enough of Capitalism and Capitalists, we’re all in the sad position of having to choose between handing over our cash to outright Bond villains or slightly less evil oligarchs.
My own efforts to thoroughly cut ties with Jeff Bezos are roughly 99%. I discovered, even after dropping amazon.com, the Washington Post (whose editorials, Bezos has decreed, must now tow a pro-business line), Kindle software, and AbeBooks, that Goodreads was another Bezos company. Both The Story Graph and LibraryThing import a Goodreads library and both have mobile apps. Both work fine.
The last link will be my Audible subscription, which expires shortly. If you are considering a similar move, here are a few Audible alternatives:
- Audiobooks.com : $14.95 / month
- Chirp : pay for each book
- Everand : $11.99 / month
- Libro.fm : $14.99 / month or pay for each book
- Libby : FREE with a library membership
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