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Amazon destroying millions of items of unsold stock in UK every year (www.itv.com)
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[–] AgreeableLandscape@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 years ago (1 children)

Nothing new. Farmers in the West do this too. So do grocery stores.

[–] yogthos@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 3 years ago

yeah it's just standard capitalism

[–] ksynwa@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 3 years ago (1 children)

People in the article cannot understand just why this is happening. Meanwhile Marx and Engels wrote about this in 1800s.

But yeah the sheer amount of waste generation is staggering. I watched the video and spotted a few things I could use and I am pretty privileged already.

[–] yogthos@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 3 years ago

I find it very amusing how the west keeps chest pounding about freedom of expression and diversity of opinion. Yet, you'd be hard press to find a western economist who has even cursory familiarity with Marxist economic theory.