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Throwing food away because capitalism

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[–] dgbbad@lemmy.zip 9 points 5 months ago

Not food related, but this story brought the memory to mind.

I used to work at a place that bought and sold used books, games, consoles and other stuff. If a console got through inspection and it turned out not to be sellable because of minor issues, it didn't just get thrown away, they took it out back and smashed it with a sledgehammer. I have a vivid rage filled memory of there being a perfectly functional Xbox 360 that had a broken eject button that you could easily eject with a pen or paperclip that they smashed to pieces. This was when Xbox 360 was still the latest and greatest. Well, as great as it ever was, anyway.