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No, the relevant pigouvian tax would be about the waste stream from products which aren't feasible to repair and which are trashed, and the environmental damage
by abeppu 3y ago
No, the relevant pigouvian tax would be about the waste stream from products which aren't feasible to repair and which are trashed, and the environmental damage in producing and transporting replacements. When we all have microplastic _in our bodies_, and we're on a downward spiral of making ever cheaper, shorter-lived products, it seems really bewildering to hear someone claim there are no externalities.
- n2d4 3y agoThe externalities are on the new products, not the right to repair, so a true pigouvian tax would be on the sale of products that can contaminate our environment regardless of repairability. (Otherwise, people would still be encouraged to just rebuy the product out of convenience even if it's repairable.) As I said elsewhere, I'm not saying there shouldn't be a tax, I'm just saying it wouldn't be a pigouvian tax.