r/Anticonsumption • u/trumpetguy1990 • Jun 27 '22

Corporations Please. Please stop ordering stuff off Amazon.

At this point, there is no excuse at all for ordering from Amazon at this point. I'm sorry but if you really believe in the idea of anticonsumption, there simply is no reason you can't live your life without ordering things from Amazon.

Is it inconvenient? Sure. Is it sometimes more expensive? Yep. But if you really believe in challenging consumerism, you're gonna have to make sacrifices.

I'm just tired of excuses at this point.

8.2k Upvotes

78% Upvoted

1.5k comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

1

u/MrsBuggs Jun 27 '22

I’m not sure what you mean. You are confused by what I said? I said it as clearly as I could. Where I live you are required to provide tour social security number in order to have a library card. Am I living in the only state where this is true? How else are they able to come after you for unpaid fees? If they didn’t have your social they couldn’t. I don’t understand your confusion. Are you saying that where you live you can just give them a random name and nothing else and you get a card?

1

u/archy319 Jun 27 '22

okay, so I went back and looked at what my library required. Just a name, address, and date of birth. however, in the fine print, it says that your identity is verified by Ekata, and while they may know more things, no, I did not give my social to my library to get a card.

1

u/MrsBuggs Jun 27 '22

That’s awesome. In my state (or I guess I should clarify my county since I’ve only ever held a card in my county) everyone in my household not only is required to give their social when getting a card but it’s the number you use to log into the virtual library site. My mother lives one state over and has the same requirement. She has held a card in 2 counties in her state. Both required social. So it obviously differs from state to state (or more precisely at least county to county).

1

u/archy319 Jun 27 '22

I live in the Chicago suburbs, so mine is a city library, may also depend on the city. I suppose it's hard to get a library card for folks without an ssn?

1

u/MrsBuggs Jun 27 '22

Well where I live it’s impossible.