Why Is It So Hard to Quit Amazon ? Because Shopping Is Labor.
▻https://slate.com/technology/2018/11/quitting-amazon-prime-boycott-shopping-labor.html
Prime has helped overworked and underpaid Americans stretch their money and time. No wonder it’s so hard to quit. There are more than 100 million paid subscriptions to Amazon Prime, the inordinately convenient service that provides fast shipping, good deals, and prestige television to consumers. The majority of U.S. households (51 percent) have an account. Increasingly, people are wising up to both the company’s serious threat as a monopoly and its willingness to seek domination at the (...)