So that's 130,000 items, per warehouse, per week. With 295 warehouses, and 52 weeks, that's 1,994,200,000 items. Even taking the value of items on the low end, that's almost $40 billion a year, destroyed, instead of donated, of perfectly usable goods. Amazon is allegedly doing this to keep the prices up, supply, demand, basic economics. So what does NSG think?
I think it's time to break up Amazon. This is wrong, disgusting, and amoral. $40 billion. Every year. Destroyed. Not donated to the needy, not given to entrepreneurs, or family businesses, nope, just destroyed. Plain and simple. In the US, the average rent was roughly $1,100 and roughly 554,000 homeless people. So to end homelessness, for a year, with two people per one bedroom apartment, that's roughly $0.61 billion, or 1.5% of Amazon's waste. Wow, just wow.
So Western Consumerists, how long are you going to tolerate all of it? When's enough, enough? Yes, I know you that we're also required to pay for medical care of some of the homeless, and feed them, but rent is the number one expense, so even with medicine and food, ending homelessness in the US would still be below a whopping 5% of Amazon's global waste.
What does NSG say?