Is Capitalism Actually Efficient?

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  @54tisfaction · 5 years ago

  Capitalism: You have two cows. You shoot one, and sell the other one for triple the price.

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  @VoR_RedEnlightenment · 5 years ago (edited)

  Dude, could you imagine manufacturing or preparing all that product for consumption only to find out it was destroyed or thrown in the trash when it's still perfectly fine? All that hard work for literally nothing. Amazon's prices are already insane as it is. The fact that they're destroying expensive shit to keep prices up is sickening. Kudos to those who donated any product to charity.

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  @trevorstang4460 · 5 years ago

  As an Irishman, seeing all of those potatoes go to waste made my heart cry a little bit.

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  @FlamingAtheist · 5 years ago

  Remember kids: <br><b>Bezos goes to space for fun while his workers cant afford to go to the bathroom</b>

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  @eliearle9900 · 5 years ago

  The worst recent example of this at the Joannes where I work: Two entire cartfulls of brand new blankets shoved in the trash compactor. I told my manager, &quot;If I wouldn&apos;t get in trouble I would put all these in my car and drop them off at a mutual aid center.&quot; She responded, &quot;If I wouldn&apos;t get in trouble I would let you.&quot;

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  @sawponq · 5 years ago

  Seeing those food wastage is very disturbing. Wish more ppl knew about this.

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  @Slowther87 · 5 years ago

  I worked at a grocery store where someone who worked for our local homeless shelter came and asked for donations and the manager wouldn&apos;t let it happen. I argued with him for days over it and he finally contacted the owner who then eventually came to our store (after talking with a lawer) with a contract for the shelter manager to sign that basically said the store isn&apos;t responsible for any illness that could potentially come from the donated food. It become my job every morning to go through my section of the store and pull product close to expiration and put it all in a cart to be picked up by the shelter. That was easily the best part of that job. I always made sure to put tons of extras that weren&apos;t close to expiration but knew the shelter could use. I eventually got other department leaders to get an associate to do the same and I would guess we donated somewhere around 5000 dollars of food a week to the shelter.

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  @alexeialeksandr7606 · 5 years ago

  As someone who used to work in the food industry, I saw so much food being wasted that it started to weigh on my conscious.

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  @GERMAN_ENGINEERING · 5 years ago

  I literally got an Amazon training course ad on this video.<br>YouTube’s sense of humour is beyond me.

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  @100perdido · 5 years ago

  What a depressing job, to destroy perfectly good items instead of being able to give them to someone who needs them. My father was a Depression Era farm boy turned truck driver and in the 60&apos;s &nbsp;one of his gigs was to haul loads of potatoes from the Midwest to the Gulf Coast where they were loaded onto barges and dumped into the Gulf of Mexico. Imagine him having to do that.

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  @Feroste · 5 years ago

  Capitalism is so efficient it only took 1 missed paycheck to become homeless.

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  @d4v0r_x · 5 years ago

  i was raised where throwing away comodities - particularily food, is not ok. not just economically, but plain morally wrong. watching good produce being destroyed offends me

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