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Even if we had all the perfect excise taxes, there's no theoretical reason planned obselessence would take place in other ways. (E.g. company buys your trash an
by Ericson2314 8y ago
Even if we had all the perfect excise taxes, there's no theoretical reason planned obselessence would take place in other ways. (E.g. company buys your trash and recycles it into new thing they sell you at profit.)
The imperative to get more revenue always points towards rent seeking. I'm not even sure how to theoretically separate planned obeselessence from other forms of rent seeking.
The left is derrided for wanting to abolish private property, but the irony is capitalism itself tends towards concentrating ownership away from all from most of us.
- Ericson2314 8y agoI wonder how often incandescent lightbulbs are/were recycled. That is probably as closest example in reality to my planned obselessence + recycling example. (Certainly glass and iron are relatively easy to recycle, not sure about tungsten.)