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Imagine the cost, in both time and work, to create all of the iron ore, coal and all the other natural resources that go into a single piece of crap sold on ama
by Swenrekcah 6y ago
Imagine the cost, in both time and work, to create all of the iron ore, coal and all the other natural resources that go into a single piece of crap sold on amazon.
If that were priced into the crap, I'm sure having some humans spend a few of their hours on repurpuosing it would make financial sense.
- MattGaiser 6y agoIt is priced in by the price of the item.
- Swenrekcah 6y agoNo, what's priced in is the cost of digging something up. Not the cost of creating it in the first place. Also not priced in is the environmental cost of discarding the assembled product. Edit: I might add that in the cost of digging up resources, in many cases the lives of the people doing the digging are not valued much more than the hours of the people doing the sorting of returned items. So that's something to think about as well.
- kennywinker 6y ago> what's priced in is the cost of digging something up Just to add to that, without carbon pricing the cost of digging up contains the fuel cost, but not the cost of emissions associated with burning that fuel to dig + process