Why do you cooperate with Amazon, a company that has [a](https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2020/feb/05/amazon-workers-protest-unsafe-grueling-conditions-warehouse) [very](https://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/16/technology/inside-amazon-wrestling-big-ideas-in-a-bruising-workplace.html) [long](https://www.ft.com/content/ed6a985c-70bd-11e2-85d0-00144feab49a?mhq5j=e1) [and](https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/dec/11/amazon-accused-of-intolerable-conditions-at-scottish-warehouse) [well](https://www.businessinsider.de/gruenderszene/allgemein/ard-amazon-leiharbeiter/) [known](https://www.vox.com/recode/2020/9/24/21455196/amazon-employees-listservs-minorities-underrepresented-groups-worker-dissent-unionizationo) [history](https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2019/03/amazon-workers-compensation-amcare-clinic-warehouse/) [for](https://sk.sagepub.com/cases/addressing-poor-working-conditions-amazon-challenges-covid-19) [its](https://journals.aom.org/doi/abs/10.5465/AMBPP.2019.11833abstract) [terrible](https://www.workerslaw.com/posts/amazon-workplace-conditions/) [working](https://www.boredpanda.com/amazon-employees-bad-working-conditions/) [conditions](https://documentaryheaven.com/amazon-truth-behind-click/) [for](https://www.iheart.com/podcast/1119-megacorp-89680740/) [its](https://html.duckduckgo.com/html?q=amazon%20working%20conditions) [workers<sup>1</sup>](https://www.ethicalconsumer.org/company-profile/amazoncom-inc)? Do not Stack Exchange have any supplier ethics policy or similar guidelines? I get that AWS probably is not the worst place to work. But it is still owned by and supports Amazon. If you were on vacation in Italia, would you eat at a pizza restaurant owned by the mafia? Let's assume that the pizza restaurant is fully legal, pays all its taxes and does nothing wrong. If you eat there you are still financing criminals and undermining safety and democracy. What is most important for Stack Exchange, ethics or profit? ---- <sup>1</sup> Or *"contractor"*/*"retailer"*/[whatever euphemism Amazon fancies using](https://www.huffpost.com/entry/amazon-germany-strike_n_5868532).