Cutting commentary against Amazon.com

Commenters have taken over an Amazon.com product review page for a pie cutter, with their own cutting remarks about the company and their perception of the way the company does business.

Amazon product reviews are helpful for anyone to read before making a purchase. Perhaps Amazon will find a string of comments on a pie-cutter tool to be helpful if they’re wondering how the company is perceived after a series of articles by The Seattle Times pointed out the company doesn’t contribute to charity in the city where it was founded.

Here are a few of the comments:

“I found this pie cutter to be very effective at creating a fair share! However, my joy of sharing delicious pie with friends and family was ruined when I thought about Amazon’s tax-dodging, public-education-destroying, health-care-budget-gutting, American-citizen-killing corporate polices.”

“I would not buy this product again from this website.”Was shocked to get an even piece of the pie! Amazon seems to have the monopoly on slicing hugh slices from the pie chart that represents OUR economy. They starve our local book stores, publishing companies and small businesses by undercutting prices, while not paying an even slice of state and federal taxes. Amazon needs to try this pie cutter. It really does cut equally any way you slice it!”

“Quite often when divvying up dinner at our family’s weekly “Pizza Night”, I as the oldest and richest will take the largest slice. My children starve on the leftover scraps, if there is any left. It’s so easy to forget that there are others to feed! Now that I have the handy Pie Marker/Cutter 6 Cut, I recognize that my greed, while initially profitable to my waistline, has resulted in my family leaving me! Hopefully the smell of delicious, fairly sized slices of pizza will convince them to return to the family. Thanks for the valuable lesson, Amazon!”

“First of all, I’m not about to use a pie cutter that makes the pieces equal. That’s just not American. I may be way down in the middle-muddle of the 99% but IF I had enough money for a whole pie, I wouldn’t want to share 99% of it with the rest of the world. I’d want the whole thing for myself! Right? That’s why I regularly and dutifully vote against my own immediate self interest, like against that initiative for a graduated state income tax for just the rich citizens of Washington State, folks like Amazon executives–people who make more money in a couple weeks, or days, or hours, than I do all year. I’ve had so little for so long, if I had it all I’d want to keep it all, right?”

“I’m for sharing pie. Amazon’s corporate responsibility would include paying and treating warehouse workers fairly. We reap the benefit with good customer service, quality products, and family wage jobs with workers able to contribute to our communities. This is what sharing the pie looks like.”

“Amazon wants me to think they have my best interests at heart, wants me to think it believes in fairness, by offering me a product that will divvy things up with copacetic equality. But look at those teeth! The damn thing is a shark in disguise, it will chew my hand off! And then I thought about pie charts I’ve seen, about income and wealth, and where I fit and where Jeff Bezos does, and who pays what in taxes, and who gets what from how we’ve set society up. No fair share there, just outsized profits and excessive executive compensation invested not in our economy but in sliced and diced financial legerdemain, hidden with three-card-monte patter to distract a poor fair goer like myself about creating jobs, when really labor creates all wealth and Jeff couldn’t afford his fancy house or his unproductive financial hedge fund investments or have a company at all if it wasn’t for the workers. Make the pie higher!”

“Oh, man, I LOVE this pie-cutter. Every day at our house we fight over who is going to get the most pie. I mean, that’s pretty normal, right? People want more than their fair share. So we instituted a simple rule: you cut the pie, the other people choose the piece they want. Simple fairness. Since we got this pie-cutter, meal time has been much less stressful.”

Read more Amazon pie-cutter reviews here.

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By LINDA THOMAS