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> I'm sure if you made everything in thin cardboard with minimal markings, they'd be angry. If only some things had minimal packaging, those vendors would be a
by rwallace 8y ago
> I'm sure if you made everything in thin cardboard with minimal markings, they'd be angry.
If only some things had minimal packaging, those vendors would be a competitive disadvantage, but if everything had minimal packaging, maybe consumers would be angry for five minutes, but then they'd get used to it. In other words, this is exactly the kind of coordination problem that governments were invented to solve.
- agumonkey 8y agoGreen and politics rarely go well together methinks, this will never be seen as a valueable politician time (and I'm sure they'll despise having less shiny on shelves). You'd need some economical model to make packaging too costly and thus explain why a law reducing them interesting.