> Technology and scale made it so that boot story actually comes out in favor of the person buying and replacing cheap boots. If you ignore the externalities.

> Technology and scale made it so that boot story actually comes out in favor of the person buying and replacing cheap boots. If you ignore the externalities. Extending the analogy, the boot story comes out in favor of buying cheap boots AND the persons' grandchildren have to struggle against ecological challenges they did not create and only tangentially benefit from.