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by Symbiote
1826 days ago
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> Economics are immune to guilt, you have to find another way to penalize the behaviors you dislike or incentivize the behaviors you want. Aren't articles like this part of that "other way"? The start of the long path to regulation. |
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The entity that throws these things away is called something like "Amazon Warehouse 123", and its business is to accept goods that belong to others in bulk, keep them for a while, and finally either ship them singly to regular buyers, in bulk to the owner or someone else, or throw the away. The discarded goods are ones for which the owner either has told Amazon Warehouse 1234 to discard, or the owner has stopped paying or otherwise relieved the warehouse of its obligation to… warehouse those goods.
Would you regulate the owner (which is often another Amazon subsidiary, but may also be someone else)? The warehouse? And what would you make them do?