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> hopefully the article will make it fashionable among hipsters seeking better materials for their moleskines? If that happens we’ll be reading articles about
by returningfory2 2y ago
> hopefully the article will make it fashionable among hipsters seeking better materials for their moleskines?
If that happens we’ll be reading articles about how unfair it is that western consumers are pricing the Nepalese people out of their local products (a la quinoa).
- MichaelZuo 2y agoI don’t think all the hipsters in the world could consume that much specialty paper in a year, so it’s unlikely to be an issue.
- kragen 2y agopresupposing a global hipster population of 100 million and paper consumption per hipster of one bullet journal per month, weighing perhaps 500 grams, we get 600 thousand tonnes per year of paper consumption, roughly four thousand times the amount the article tells us is being used to print banknotes. this seems like it could employ several hundred thousand people, but probably not nearly enough to run out of land suitable for growing argeli
- AlecSchueler 2y agoIt wasn't about running out of land it was about the demand increasing prices to the point that locals could no longer make use of it.
- kragen 2y agothose are the same thing, we aren't talking about logging nonrenewable old-growth forests here
- kragen 2y agoyou can read that stuff if you like i guess. in fact if you really want to read it you can get gpt-4 to generate it today, without having to wait for it to actually happen: http://sprunge.us/REx4gD http://sprunge.us/REx4gD