diff --git a/rap_sheets/amazon.md b/rap_sheets/amazon.md index b3193f7..b200c11 100644 --- a/rap_sheets/amazon.md +++ b/rap_sheets/amazon.md @@ -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]: [guinea-pigs-cache]: + +[wastes-stock]: +[wastes-stock-cache]: