[Insert Steinbeck's quote]

Stupid question: surely it would be good PR for your company to donate whatever won’t sell to food banks and shit, right? I know they probably hang onto it until the absolute last minute, but like cmon right?

Same thing happens all over. EU have a mountain of diary products that goes into the furnaces now and then.

Cant sell stuff cheap, better to burn it or spoil it.

the best system we got /s

Honestly with how shit things have been getting in Argentina, the seeds of revolution should start growing soon.

Why are they trashing it tho?
To keep the supply in line with demand to maintain the price?

Would the loss incurred here be better than that if they sold it cheaper?

storage costs money. if no one is buying anything and your storage is getting filled the fastest way to get rid of it is to just dump it in the wild.

So they consider the resources they spent to cultivate and harvest the fruit to be sunk cost?

Also fruit doesn’t last forever it’s not very shelf stable. So you have to harvest it when you can and if it doesn’t sell in time you have to trash it. Nothing anyone can do with rotting tangerines. Make room for the new harvest by trashing the old harvest so you can at least try to sell something fresh rather than old fruit. There isn’t really another option. Sure you could try to compost it or something but I’m sure these farms already are setup to compost a normal amount of waste, nothing useful to do with tons of extra fruit.

The people must starve so the rich can feast

I’m greedy, everyone around me is greedy, all of society around me is greedy, all of history that I studied through this lens is greedy.

Clearly humans are inherently greedy soulless bastards and would put a bullet in your head before sharing their surplus of oranges.

You’re a moron. You’re a moron for thinking that all of humanity can be boiled down to a single emotional factor/desire and then projecting that onto all of history and all of the people around you.

Log off and go talk with actually good people and your myopic lens of self projection will crumble as learn that not everyone is as callous and rotten as you.

But can you imagine how many events could have been prevented if only this antisocialist had been there to enlighten us? The Soviet intervention in Afghanistan would have never happened. The civil wars in Mozambique, Angola, and Central America would have never happened. The Vietnam war would never have happened. The Cuban revolution wouldn’t have happened. The Korean war wouldn’t have happened. The Russian civil war would have never happened. The Paris Commune would have never existed. The entire course of the twentieth century could have been entirely different if only there had been an antisocialist around to present us with his angsty view of humanity. Just imagine it.

This is mystical nonsense. Kind of like how ancient peoples explained nature using deities. It’s just that people use bunk 17th and 18th century pseudoscience instead of gods.

Humans want enough. They don’t naturally want more than others. It’s the structure of society that creates greed. Greed is not a spirit inhabiting the bodies of individuals who then shape society to be greedy. It’s a dialectical process between the base and the superstructure. It’s not magical feelings stored in our DNA.

These faux “concessions” you’re making in order to make your pseudoscience sound more palatable are easy to see through. You’re pathetic for misunderstanding humanity to such an extent.

“I don’t want your millions mister”

Fuck off and read the comment again.

Edit: also desire? Desire? You may as well have said motivation. It’s a term which covers so much you might as well say nothing at all. Which would be good and you should try that next time before spouting your unexamined justifications for being a piece of shit who wipes his hands clean of a social system which destroys food while others starve.