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> Doing anything is better than doing nothing Not if it distracts from accomplishing things that actually matter. Think about plastic straw madness. They take
by crackercrews 4y ago
> Doing anything is better than doing nothing
Not if it distracts from accomplishing things that actually matter. Think about plastic straw madness. They take up very little room in landfills. By volume they make up very little of ocean waste. And if you get a plastic straw at a restaurant that isn't on the beach, it is hard to even imagine how it would get in the ocean. Yet society moved mountains to stop using plastic straws. What is the cost of creating these mostly-unnecessary alternatives? What could people have done with their time that would have been more productive?
The costs of virtue signaling are real.
- JKCalhoun 4y ago> Yet society moved mountains to stop using plastic straws I have not seen that to be the case, but how would I know mountains were moved. Was this a fad on TikTok or something? Regardless, hard to see how that somehow distracted from doing something that really matters.
- theklr 4y agoThat was not a virtue signal nor demand. Media picked up cute kid asking to do good, companies found away to reduce costs for their profits. Most states and cities banned plastic bags, but the straw was corporate greenwashing