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Worse yet, the personal action campaign turned a lot of people into rabid animals with 'recycling' everything, including much of which is just landfilled. And i
by bandersnitch 4y ago
Worse yet, the personal action campaign turned a lot of people into rabid animals with 'recycling' everything, including much of which is just landfilled. And if you call into question the whole recycling industry, which has been mostly proven to be a scam of the plastics industry, they'll just get angry and say something like "well you just have to trust them at some point".
Now, metal recycling is definitely a thing. Recycling alu or iron is definitely a valid thing. It costs a lot of energy to convert iron ore or bauxite into the associated pure metals.
Countrywide laws that could change how recycling and products work: require cradle-to-grave product laws, and then make the source responsible for disposal. (That would turn the current externality into an internality. And their scale would help solve it.)
- EGreg 4y agoOr at least use pigovian taxes to remove the printed money from the economy. These would be great for forcing companies to start researching and using biodegradeable products right quick. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pigouvian_tax https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pigouvian_tax
- Jeff_Brown 4y agoPigouvian taxes are great, but what connection do you see between them and the printing of money?
- EGreg 4y agoIf you don't redistribute the money directly to the people, that tax burden can fall disproportionately on the working class, and you get stuff like this: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/15/business/yellow-vests-movement-inequality.html https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/15/business/yellow-vests-mov... Furthermore, if you redistribute a UBI to the people, it makes the tax popular. This is massively important in a society that's tax-averse, and helps gather support for actually solving collective action problems.