It's hard not to sacrifice principles for convenience when the modern world is so inconvenient

I don't want to buy stuff from Amazon, because Amazon has invented a new kind of labor travesty: the chickenized reverse centaur. That's a worker who has to foot the bill to outfit a work environment where they nevertheless have no autonomy (chickenization) and whose body is conscripted to act as a peripheral for a digital system. Checking in on the state of Amazon's chickenized reverse-centaurs…