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Amazon trashes millions of new unsold products annually

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@ -56,6 +56,10 @@ Amazon is the root of abuses of privacy, freedom, human rights, civil liberties,
1. Amazon has [been caught][climateDenial] financing climate deniers.
1. Amazon's extremely low prices encourage reckless consumption that's environmentally harmful. Amazon-branded devices in particular (Kindle, Alexa, Tablets) become dirt-cheap on sitewide sale days such as Black Friday.
1. Amazon fully exploits [The Tyranny of Convenience](https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/16/opinion/sunday/tyranny-convenience.html), so even if prices weren't competitive the convenience they bring encourages wasteful consumption.
1. Amazon is [destroying millions of items][wastes-stock] of
unsold stock every year, products that are often new and
unused, ITV News can reveal. (That article covers the UK, but
an insider tells me it's happening in the US too)
1. Amazon is **anti-consumer** and anti-competitive
1. Amazon [sold diapers at a loss](https://web.archive.org/web/20201231204553/https://www.currentaffairs.org/2020/12/how-amazon-destroys-the-intellectual-justifications-for-capitalism/) to drive Quidsi out of business.
1. Amazon spent $4.38 million to [lobby against antitrust law][antitrustLobby]
@ -214,3 +218,6 @@ See also Richard Stallman's [Amazon RAP sheet][RMS], which we will one day merge
[guinea-pigs]: <https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/16/technology/personaltech/buyers-of-amazon-devices-are-guinea-pigs-thats-a-problem.html?smid=tw-share>
[guinea-pigs-cache]: <https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/16/technology/personaltech/buyers-of-amazon-devices-are-guinea-pigs-thats-a-problem.html?smid=tw-share>
[wastes-stock]: <https://www.itv.com/news/2021-06-21/amazon-destroying-millions-of-items-of-unsold-stock-in-one-of-its-uk-warehouses-every-year-itv-news-investigation-finds>
[wastes-stock-cache]: <https://web.archive.org/web/20210621101104/https://www.itv.com/news/2021-06-21/amazon-destroying-millions-of-items-of-unsold-stock-in-one-of-its-uk-warehouses-every-year-itv-news-investigation-finds>