I saw someone make a condescending post that said, "If your family gets you Amazon gift cards for your birthday or holidays, but you don't want to support ✨Daddy Bezos✨, friendly reminder that you can exchange gift cards for cash at those kiosks at the grocery store! It takes a percentage, but it's better than supporting a megacorp!" and it's like... babe... if your aunt bought the gift card, Amazon already has that money... the kiosk is going to resell the gift card... it's going to get used... If you actually feel bad about it, there are thousands of people living in food deserts (particularly those on reservations) who legitimately have no other choice but to use Amazon for groceries and necessary supplies whose wishlists you could support; as much as we like to fight with people about this being fake and lazy, there really are people who can only afford to get their medical supplies through Amazon because like that's what a dystopian monopoly does, they'd probably buy the gift card off of you or if you can afford to, just give it to them; if you hate people for some reason, animal shelters have wishlists idk. Or just use your cognitive dissonance to say that you didn't get the gift card on purpose and buy yourself something stupid and don't tell anyone if you're honestly so so so mad about not getting birthday money out of the situation that isn't ethically sourced.
