Does anybody else feel put off by consumerism after working at their warehouse?

Rant

I went to school for art & was heavily into fashion and just buying things left and right.. one of the main reasons I even work at Amazon is due to my credit card debt. For one, I feel like this is my karma due to not being responsible with my spending, but also having a degree in a field that is extremely difficult to find a job. With that being said, after beginning my job I was shocked at the amounts of crap people buy in general and the amount of waste that comes after people open their packages - plastic, cardboard, miscellaneous things that they won’t use again, etc. idk I am not coming from a judgmental place at all bc I used to be this way, but it just made me overall become more aware of the crap I myself was compulsively buying but also sorta sad how accessible and how much crap we consume everyday

Posted Jan 10, 2026, 12:28 AM UTC

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