I’m confused about all the liberal cool kids who are advocating not shopping at Amazon because of their terrible labor practices. Meanwhile, other warehouses, warehouse contractors, etc. have been conducting similar or worse labor practices for 20+ years and not a peep has been heard about any of that from these same people.

I support Amazon labor unionizing and I support much harsher regulation, by the way. Jeff Bezos should not have $150 billion. No one should have that much money.

Virtue signaling just makes me angry in a way that few other things do, and this in particular bothers me because I think this instance emerges from the fact that these addlepated liberals identify with Amazon workers more because they see them as less blue-collar than someone working at the Wal-Mart warehouse or the like.

Don’t shop at Amazon all you want. But that isn’t actually helping anything, and probably hurts more than it helps because it’s yet another distraction.