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by msg 1826 days ago
Amazon warehouses are shelters for things. Either someone pays the fee and adopts the thing, or it goes to the farm upstate.

There are lots of thing mills breeding special things that wind up in the shelter. It's a cold and cruel business, but that's humans trying to make a buck for you.

If things don't get adopted, they don't always get killed though. Sometimes they get adopted for pennies on the dollar, and move elsewhere in the system.

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>Either someone pays the fee and adopts the thing, or it goes to the farm upstate.

Yeah, and everyone else (but not Amazon!) will pay the "upstate farm" fee, aka environmental damage, for eternity.

Aren't externalities great?