Convenience is an ethical soundness, it just isn't usually taken that way.
Shifting commerce to digital and personal, just-in-time shipping, and customer-centric are good. Ugly business practices, creepy data mining, and DRM are bad. If you want to wave your hand at "conveniences", why wouldn't I wave my hand at "philosophical quibbles"?
Amazon is a mixed bag. For me, it's more good than bad. Putting your blinders on to the good for the sake of argument is not convincing.
Is it really unethical to buy a DRMed ebook? Seems to me I only hurt myself with it - unless you count the bigger picture that I am contributing to a future where everything is DRMed. But I think the latter might be overblown. Even if people buy DRMed books, free books still exist.
Not sure about the sweatshop story, but at least with ebooks the workers have to sweat only once, when they ship the kindle.
mcantelon|13 years ago
msg|13 years ago
Shifting commerce to digital and personal, just-in-time shipping, and customer-centric are good. Ugly business practices, creepy data mining, and DRM are bad. If you want to wave your hand at "conveniences", why wouldn't I wave my hand at "philosophical quibbles"?
Amazon is a mixed bag. For me, it's more good than bad. Putting your blinders on to the good for the sake of argument is not convincing.
Tichy|13 years ago
Not sure about the sweatshop story, but at least with ebooks the workers have to sweat only once, when they ship the kindle.
vijayr|13 years ago
benguild|13 years ago