> Everyone is impressively short sighted. Incredibly. Even if we throw ethics aside and look at the strategy it is still myopic. The idea is destroy so others

> Everyone is impressively short sighted. Incredibly. Even if we throw ethics aside and look at the strategy it is still myopic. The idea is destroy so others can't get the data too. But this assumes you've done a perfect scan and you have backups. There's no good reason to destroy the books other than myopia. I'm more than willing to bet that in 5-10 years they'll wish they didn't destroy the books, specifically the rare ones. To be clear, I'm not trying to condone their behavior. I hate it. But I'm trying to show that even if you had their same ethics it's still dumb. I hope workers are secretly stashing the books away. If you're one of the people in charge of destroying the books, you have a cultural duty to preserve them. I'm willing to bet people will go to great lengths to help you do it secretly so you can continue to keep them safe and keep your job. If you're at Amazon, or any company where this is happening, you have a duty to the world to make efforts to preserve the books. Steal the PDFs and lock them away. Create backups in your company. Tell your bosses you don't think this is right. Don't sit silently while this happens. Silence unfortunately is enabling. Unfortunately silence isn't a passive action