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In our quest to increase recycling we seem to have forgotten that the original phrase was 'reduce, reuse, recycle'. For example, the manufacturer doesn't have
by kurtisc 8y ago
In our quest to increase recycling we seem to have forgotten that the original phrase was 'reduce, reuse, recycle'.
For example, the manufacturer doesn't have to waste the energy to recycle the case if the case can be reused by making the battery user-serviceable.
- mfoy_ 8y agoWon't somebody please think of the shareholders? How will they be able to make insane profits if people aren't replacing??
- smacktoward 8y agoPerennially relevant cartoon from the New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/cartoon/a16995 https://www.newyorker.com/cartoon/a16995
- Sharlin 8y agoWe must prevent repairs in order to maximize shareholder profit in order for the wealth to trickle down in order to allow consumers to replace their nonserviceable goods.
- brokenmachine 8y agoHow trickle-down economics works: First, the shareholders get all the profits. Then what? ...that's it.
- TeMPOraL 8y agoThe trick is to shove money at the shareholders faster than they can bank or consume it - this way, the overflow will spill down to the lower tiers of society. /s