{"id":452,"date":"2025-10-05T06:30:45","date_gmt":"2025-10-05T06:30:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/2025\/10\/05\/way-past-its-prime-how-did-amazon-get-so-rubbish-amazon-the-guardian\/"},"modified":"2025-10-05T06:30:45","modified_gmt":"2025-10-05T06:30:45","slug":"way-past-its-prime-how-did-amazon-get-so-rubbish-amazon-the-guardian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/2025\/10\/05\/way-past-its-prime-how-did-amazon-get-so-rubbish-amazon-the-guardian\/","title":{"rendered":"Way past its prime: how did Amazon get so rubbish? | Amazon | The Guardian"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>The path to a better Amazon doesn\u2019t lie through consumer activism, or appeals to the its conscience. Corporations, being artificial, immortal colony-organisms that use humans as their inconvenient gut flora, do not have consciences to appeal to. The path leads through coalitions: of consumers and merchants who are tired of being robbed; of workers who are tired of being immiserated and maimed; of competitors who are tired of being strong-armed by a monopolist bully; of tax-justice activists who are tired of trillion-dollar multinationals ducking their obligations. Systemic problems have systemic solutions, not individual ones. You can\u2019t shop your way out of a monopoly.<\/p>\n<p>Martin Luther King Jr once said, \u201cIt may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can stop him from lynching me, and I think that\u2019s pretty important, also.\u201d<br \/>\n\u2014 Read on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2025\/oct\/05\/way-past-its-prime-how-did-amazon-get-so-rubbish\">www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2025\/oct\/05\/way-past-its-prime-how-did-amazon-get-so-rubbish<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The path to a better Amazon doesn\u2019t lie through consumer activism, or appeals to the its conscience. Corporations, being artificial, immortal colony-organisms that use humans as their inconvenient gut flora, do not have consciences to appeal to. The path leads through coalitions: of consumers and merchants who are tired of being robbed; of workers who [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=452"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}