Amazon trashes millions of new unsold products annually
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1. Amazon has [been caught][climateDenial] financing climate deniers.
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1. Amazon has [been caught][climateDenial] financing climate deniers.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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1. Amazon is [destroying millions of items][wastes-stock] of
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unsold stock every year, products that are often new and
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unused, ITV News can reveal. (That article covers the UK, but
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an insider tells me it's happening in the US too)
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1. Amazon is **anti-consumer** and anti-competitive
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1. Amazon is **anti-consumer** and anti-competitive
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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.
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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.
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1. Amazon spent $4.38 million to [lobby against antitrust law][antitrustLobby]
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1. Amazon spent $4.38 million to [lobby against antitrust law][antitrustLobby]
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[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>
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[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>
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[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>
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[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>
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[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>
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[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>
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