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If someone could create a cryptocurrency using proof that require people to pick up garbage, the world would be garbage-free in a month.
by plank_time 5y ago
If someone could create a cryptocurrency using proof that require people to pick up garbage, the world would be garbage-free in a month.
- schmichael 5y agoPeople would litter just to create more garbage to “mine.”
- tehlike 5y agoRats of Hanoi - explains the exact thing you are saying :) https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/hanoi-rat-massacre-1902 https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/hanoi-rat-massacre-190...
- Cilvic 5y agoOr Cobra effect https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perverse_incentive https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perverse_incentive
- PeterStuer 5y agoWe had (have) this here in Belgium with a very real case. Separate collection of plastics and the creation of plastics collection and recycling (organizations)companies were introduced for environmental improvement. Unfortunately, these have turned into the biggest plastic packaging lobby and have caused an explosion in the use of plastic packaging in retail. More plastic use is unfortunately a net benefit to those whose economic/financial incentives depend on it.
- valesco 5y agoI live in Belgium and I never heard of that. Do you have any source? I’m interested.
- PeterStuer 5y agoIn Dutch. https://trends.knack.be/economie/bedrijven/recyclagebedrijf-fost-plus-beschuldigd-van-belangenvermenging-en-machtsmisbruik/article-news-1704779.html https://trends.knack.be/economie/bedrijven/recyclagebedrijf-...
- photon-torpedo 5y agoI would have thought that Belgium had learned from its past [1] to think carefully about providing incentives with potentially (horribly) harmful side effects. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atrocities_in_the_Congo_Free_State https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atrocities_in_the_Congo_Free_S... -- "... The collection of hands became an end in itself. Force Publique soldiers brought them to the stations in place of rubber; they even went out to harvest them instead of rubber ... They became a sort of currency ..."
- PeterStuer 5y agoThere are many examples of perverse incentives. As for the reference you provide, note that the atrocities were at the time when private companies using private militias ruled the region that was the property of a private holding of Leopold of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld who at the time also was the King of Belgium. It was the Belgian state learning of these atrocities that prompted Belgian state to annex the region and bring these to a halt. It could be argued that indeed the public sector should have learned not to trust the murky amalgam of old and new capital
- sime2009 5y agoyep, we would then have to deal with "flash trash" appearing all over the place.
- tolbish 5y agoProof of effective taxes paid as per your tax bracket
- tintor 5y agoCarbon coin. Proof of removing carbon from atmosphere.