>>25527892
The way capitalism works is if people don't buy enough stuff, a recession happens (they happen anyway but still)
So when a company is not selling enough stuff, they destroy it (instead of giving away for free lol).
And of course US milk farms that were subsidized by gov do this, so the US gov said "we should will take that milk and turn it into cheese and save for later" and they did that for many years.
Then Ronald Reagan did afuera and gave it all away or something so it became a meme in 80s.