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> It absolutely depresses me to think of how many hundreds of millions of mailboxes are filled on a daily basis with unneeded paper mailings. This is a direct
by titzer 7y ago
> It absolutely depresses me to think of how many hundreds of millions of mailboxes are filled on a daily basis with unneeded paper mailings.
This is a direct function of the completely misguided (IMHO) idea that government services need to be sustainable only on usage fees. That's a failure of understanding what government is for and effectively a regressive tax. We need another mechanism for keeping the system efficient. Making it market-based isn't the only one.
- 8bitsrule 7y agoThat would be much less of a problem if bulk mailing rates were eliminated. As for the evils of government, I hesitate to even think about what the corporate solution to the coronavirus would look like.