Cut out Amazon. Quit facebook and twitter. What else, though? If the mighty dollar reigns supreme, and I wanna vote with my spending, what small steps can the average person make to disrupt the patterns of the nihilistic ego tripping energy vampires who are willing to burn it all down so they can live forever?
I am or am in the process of being rid of most of them except for Amazon. Unfortunately, there’s no end in sight for Amazon.
Since email seems like the key to everything now, starting fresh with a new service was the most logical place to start for me. I went with Proton, largely because email and VPN in one payment. From there, replace (or transfer) old accounts one-by-one.
Oh yeah, and everyone else is mentioning this, so I’ll add it too: it’s also a good time to reevaluate where you spend your time, so check:
Obviously it depends on what you buy from there, but personally I find Amazon one of the easiest places to avoid, and one of the first places I’ve started avoiding. I’ve just been substituting it with eBay and Onbuy, and so far there’s nothing Amazon has that they don’t.