Anything I've thought of so far always ends in "and then the underpaid delivery guy gets fired and starves to death" or "and then the person packing the boxes has their wages cut"

Are there methods here that actually just harm the COMPANY not the people who happen to work there?

  • SoyViking [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    Not stealing but the best way to help workers and hurt the owners of the company named after a tribe of female warriors is to support unionisation efforts.

  • HumanBehaviorByBjork [any, undecided]
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    4 years ago

    porch piracy

    but in actuality it doesn't matter. organizational stresses are shifted to the lowest ranks first, every time. the only solution is for the workers to take action to liberate themselves.

    • Audeamus [any]
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      4 years ago

      Right. It's hard to fight the power individually. The leadership is insulated from consequences. They thought about how to protect the operation at all costs first, and about consumers second. Whatever you steal is likely insured.

      Getting a law degree might be one way to give yourself a means to fight them alone, but that's a devil's bargain.

      Otherwise, taking them down is a perk of victory rather than a means of getting to victory.

  • Whorish_Ooze [none/use name]
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    4 years ago

    I think this is also an important point to remember that its fairly common for companies known for their massive online consumer goods stores to actually make a majority of their money off of their cloud computing services.

    • crime [she/her, any]
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      4 years ago

      so the answer is something involving a backhoe, some fiber cables, and a data center in Virginia

      • AlexandairBabeuf [they/them]
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        4 years ago

        the things one could accomplish with a high-vis vest, hardhat, and fake inspection papers/feigned ignorance

        • D61 [any]
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          4 years ago

          Ah... I too learned revolutionary action from watching Ghostbusters 2.

  • Fartbutt420 [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    The easiest way is to never buy anything from them, and encourage others to never buy anything from them whenever possible.

    It's easier to shit-talk them from a consumer standpoint than an overt lefty one - it's not actually any cheaper, product quality is always shitty, would rather buy local, packages are constantly lost, if I'm so desperate for coffee filters or whatever it's easier I'll just go get it myself from a shop than have it shipped overnight - all of which are true and fair. People have this idea that "oh but it's so easy/cheap/convenient" but that isn't always necessarily (or even usually) the case, and it's worth reminding them whenever it comes up - especially since it always comes up when people are kvetching about a delivery gone wrong

    • sappho [she/her]
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      4 years ago

      I love buying from Ali Express because by the time it gets here I've completely forgotten what I even ordered, so it's like a little surprise gift from my past self.

      • infuziSporg [e/em/eir]
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        4 years ago

        This rules actually.

        For a slower pace of life, and a reclaiming of our time

      • NephewAlphaBravo [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        I ordered a few things last February or so, I got half of them as Christmas gifts to myself because of the anti-china panic and USPS shitting its guts out over mail voting.

  • ButtBidet [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    Have you thought about infiltrating said Ohio River Agricultural Products Ltd company and spreading union propoganda. You could try to access their employee discord and reddit sub (both publicly searchable). Also consider getting a job there just to organize.

  • Galli [comrade/them]
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    4 years ago

    Become an affiliated seller with the company and supply counterfeit goods. People will purchase goods from you allowing you to receive money however due to the river company's mixed inventory policy the purchaser will receive either a counterfeit good that cannot be directly traced back to you for which the river company will eat the refund or the purchaser will receive a genuine product supplied by one of your competitors.

    • Phillipkdink [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      It's also generally a bad idea to horde wealth though, so while it might be generally bad to steal it's not specifically bad to steal from those who horde wealth.

      • HarryLime [any]
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        4 years ago

        It's a bad idea to break the law, because you can go to prison.

        • Phillipkdink [he/him]
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          4 years ago

          Lol you think you should obey every law?What kind of brain dead take is this?