Yours is a bogus argument. You are certainly entitled to do business with anybody you choose but your argument is the same one lefties and big government righties used to justify bailing out GM. The problem with their argument and yours is that if their is a market for a product or service somebody will provide that product or service and they will need employees to do it. Screw Amazon and every other company that wants to destroy the traditional family even further than what the Great Society accomplished. They have a right to do what they want with their money and so do I. Supporting homofascism ain’t in the cards.
Unless I am mistaken (and I certainly could be) Bezos and his wife used their own money for their wrongheaded donation. No doubt you have a job. You get a paycheck. You may even own a piece of the company. The money you make is yours to do with as you please. This was not Amazon the company. I seriously doubt that it is company policy to bring about the destruction of the traditional family. I suppose it might be written into some corporate by-laws somewhere, but I doubt it.
...your argument is the same one lefties and big government righties used to justify bailing out GM.
My argument has only a faint similarity to the one the lefties and big gov righties proclaim to justify bailing out GM. However, they only used their so-called concern for employees as window dressing for their agenda of putting government in control of an industry. I am simply saying that it is ineffective to hold the employees of a company accountable for the personal, individual actions of the founder who owns only about 20% of the company. That is a heck of a lot of money, but it is not a majority share.
I understand perfectly that if there is a demand someone will find a way to meet it. And they will need employees to do it, but not necessarily the same displaced employees who were laid off when the business tanks.
It may make us feel great to have done our part to stop the homosexual agenda by not shopping at Amazon, but that is about the only positive thing it will accomplish. That feel good stance has consequences in the lives of real people, not simply some faceless, utilitarian demographic. Sadly the failure to see, or give a damn about individuals is a blind spot of both the ideological left and right.