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Maybe a more flexible maxim would be "buy what lasts". A memory can last, but overpaying for an insta photo op is a fleeting status bump. The skis that let yo
by evrydayhustling 5y ago
Maybe a more flexible maxim would be "buy what lasts". A memory can last, but overpaying for an insta photo op is a fleeting status bump. The skis that let you take spontaneous adventures in with friends might last, but yet another single-use kitchen appliance probably won't. Disposable goods and services attract the most exploitative business models.
- eru 5y ago> Disposable goods and services attract the most exploitative business models. Not sure that's true. Most people aren't particularly exploited by the toilet paper industry, are they? Whether some industry is 'exploitative' is more of a function of whether its customers and workers have outside options available. Competition provides discipline.
- screenbreakout 5y agoFunny you mention toilet paper, cutting trees to clean your ass , and not very well at that, double layer, triple layer, scented...how many kinds of toilet paper, companies, people producing, managing, transporting, selling it...and it all ends up not very recyclable... all that because ? the bidet never took off?
- eru 5y agoNot sure what you mean by never took off? See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bidet_shower#Prevalence https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bidet_shower#Prevalence