ComiXology, Amazon’s digital comics platform, once revolutionized access to graphic novels and indie titles. Since Amazon took over, it has been folded deeper into the company’s ecosystem, cutting jobs, worsening creator payouts, and stripping away user-friendly features. Every purchase or subscription now feeds Amazon’s monopoly, funding a corporation built on worker exploitation, union busting, and surveillance tech.
Amazon is rated High Impact because its harms are systemic and interlocking.
Environmental Harm: Delivery fleets, aviation cargo, and data centers generate massive emissions and plastic waste, while public pledges mask lobbying against climate regulation.
Human Rights Violations: Workers face surveillance, injury-level quotas, and unsafe delivery speeds. Migrant workers in Saudi Arabia and elsewhere face wage theft and coercion.
Military & Conflict Complicity: AWS is central to surveillance states. Project Nimbus embeds Amazon in Israel’s occupation and war crimes, supplying AI and data services to its military and government.
The result: consumer spending that powers a machine which entrenches inequality, accelerates climate collapse, and sustains state violence worldwide.