>In theory, we could write tax law so that it made financial sense for a factory to produce widgets and send them directly into an incinerator Indeed we could,

>In theory, we could write tax law so that it made financial sense for a factory to produce widgets and send them directly into an incinerator Indeed we could, but unfortunately we already have cryptocurrency. Agreed on every other aspect of your observation. Maybe when it's 'an amazing and new Road Runner movie', the waste has a more appealing face?