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Repairing things requires labor, which also indirectly consumes many non-renewable resources (since the person supplying the labor will use their wages to buy n
by smallnamespace 10y ago
Repairing things requires labor, which also indirectly consumes many non-renewable resources (since the person supplying the labor will use their wages to buy new shiny things).
As others have pointed out, the right way to address this is to put the correct price on using non-renewable resources, not to directly force re-use or repair, since the economic efficiency of doing that depends a lot on the specific item.