EVERYTHING IS PROBLEMATICAL: Should you boycott Amazon Prime Day? “There’s a deeper queasiness to Prime Day that’s harder to dismiss. It’s Amazon at its most Amazonian — fast, cheap, convenient, and totalizing. Prime Day draws you in, not just to Amazon Prime membership but to a whole world of seamless consumerism. It’s the kind of intra-corporate pride that was on display in the bizarre concert series, and much of the company’s messaging around Prime Day in general. But is Amazon really something to be proud of?”

Things must be pretty good, when people have the energy and free time to get this worked up over a sale.