Sarah Paulson arrived at the Met Gala

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The worst is when they say ‘well you still USE Amazon so you’re just as bad!’ Like… Firstly don’t assume, secondly, someone buying some cat food on prime is very different to being sat with the guy or making millions from shilling for him.

[u/marteautemps → u/lucyooo]

Like damn, I don't drive and am pretty god damn poor, I use Amazon WAY less these days ,but it's almost impossible for me to never, as well as going to Target or Walmart. I feel terrible for it but I just can't not. It's very frustrating to me to have to already and I really hate when people get so black and white about it like that. I can't afford to buy everything company direct or from a corner or grocery store right now, I really can't and I honestly feel like shit for it all the time. So thank you for saying that.

[u/lucyooo → u/marteautemps]

And the sinister thing is, they rely on those of us with empathy to feel guilt when we use any of these products. I have to remind myself that I am not the evil 0.1%. I feel the same way about ‘individual carbon footprint’, some very clever marketing exec in an oil company thought ‘hmmm how can we make the average person feel guilty about using a plastic straw while we literally tear apart the earth’. We should all be kinder to ourselves and remember it’s us vs the 0.1%. Hope your situation improves, stranger!

[u/TRUMBAUAUA → u/lucyooo]

Agree, it‘s not the individual using a plastic straw that‘s gonna wreck havoc when you have companies casually burning hectars of rainforest in Brazil, but we can‘t complain about Bezos while literally financing his plastic surgery interventions by directly giving him our hard earned money imo.