I keep putting off posting about this because it’s just a lot. The reasons, the process, it’s just a lot. But I’ve been working on it since right after the election, a little at a time, and it’s really coming along, and I want to share what I’ve learned.
You can take it as far as you wish, or just consider it an educational opportunity. 😉
Step 1 is the hardest. Wait, maybe step 2 is the –okay, they’re all the hardest.
Capitalism is exhausting, “we all work hard so we need cheap and easy, cuz we’re tired. ooh look, they’ve supplied a cheap and easy answer”…and now they own us. It seems dramatic but the more you dig into it, the more you will see. It’s such large-scale manipulation that most people don’t even think about it. Walmart and other big-box retailers have done it in other ways, they edge out local businesses, everyone knows that, but they think of it as a “local economy” problem, it’s just the ebb and flow of numbers in bank accounts. But it also impacts the availability of things locally. If you don’t shop at Walmart, to get things at all you have to drive further, which costs time and gas, so you buy from Walmart. It’s even worse if you work there, you’re always broke so you’re just so grateful for the discount…
So, there’s that. You’re tired and burned out, and you just want to order your stuff online and watch a movie and go to bed. You can do all of that right on Prime!
Getting out of the Amazon ecosystem is hard. We’ve all been integrated into this for years, “ooh, how convenient, and they’ve got everything! They’ll bring it right to your door!”
Getting out of that cycle is hard. It’s work. So, I won’t tell you it’s easy. It’s a divorce. It’s hard in many ways, but in the end, you just might get a piece of yourself back.
Let’s call that part 1. Committing.
