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These Bin Stores show to me that the pricing of products doesn't really reflect their true cost to the environment, society and the world at large. Our resourc

These Bin Stores show to me that the pricing of products doesn't really reflect their true cost to the environment, society and the world at large. Our resources are finite and we tend to be so incredibly callous about this, I feel completely disconnected from it. Most of these products should not exist in the first place. The article also seem to imply that many of these Bin stores are also precarious businesses that aren't stable. Only the larger one(s) survive... (as usual). But this place (HN) is probably the worst place to voice this out loud. The aspirational class of future the tech billionaires are already dreaming about their profoundly wastefull super yachts they're going to commission.

citizenpaul 1y ago
>(HN) is probably the worst place to voice this out loud Yeah. I got some hate on HN for saying some store that basically sold what I call "store to landfill" junk was. Well exactly that and it probably is not worth being upset that it was going out of business. As you said it was all about the HN feelings while ignoring the massive wasteful reality for a brief spike of endorphin. 10 Chinese children lived lives of abject poverty in a factory so you can have a $5 rubber monkey mask for a 30 second work gag at the scrum standup. But hey you don't have to see them so who cares.
- Gracana 1y ago
  This comment, or a different one? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44123347 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44123347
  - citizenpaul 1y ago
    Yeah.
- jabroni_salad 1y ago
  A 30 second gag is a nearly still a useful outcome, even if it's stupid. Ever since I read this article I have been using 'garfield telephone' as the bottom of the scale: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-47732553 https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-47732553 I have been to the bin store and I want to appreciate them as basically being the retail equivalent of a catalytic converter, but the phrase 'garfield telephone' just bounces around in my head the whole time I'm there.
- ryandrake 1y ago
  Ultimately, almost everything is store-to-landfill. All that varies is the amount of time in between. That's why the first "R" is "reduce" rather than reuse or recycle.
- sokoloff 1y ago
  You skipping buying that mask doesn’t improve those kids’ lives, though.
  - bombcar 1y ago
    The sad thing is that buying the mask probably does materially improve their lives. But the factories are just as happy churning out high quality items are they are cheap plastic shit, but the demand for the latter is much, much higher.

citizenpaul 1y ago

>(HN) is probably the worst place to voice this out loud Yeah. I got some hate on HN for saying some store that basically sold what I call "store to landfill" junk was. Well exactly that and it probably is not worth being upset that it was going out of business. As you said it was all about the HN feelings while ignoring the massive wasteful reality for a brief spike of endorphin. 10 Chinese children lived lives of abject poverty in a factory so you can have a $5 rubber monkey mask for a 30 second work gag at the scrum standup. But hey you don't have to see them so who cares.

Gracana 1y ago
This comment, or a different one? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44123347 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44123347
- citizenpaul 1y ago
  Yeah.
jabroni_salad 1y ago
A 30 second gag is a nearly still a useful outcome, even if it's stupid. Ever since I read this article I have been using 'garfield telephone' as the bottom of the scale: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-47732553 https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-47732553 I have been to the bin store and I want to appreciate them as basically being the retail equivalent of a catalytic converter, but the phrase 'garfield telephone' just bounces around in my head the whole time I'm there.
ryandrake 1y ago
Ultimately, almost everything is store-to-landfill. All that varies is the amount of time in between. That's why the first "R" is "reduce" rather than reuse or recycle.
sokoloff 1y ago
You skipping buying that mask doesn’t improve those kids’ lives, though.
- bombcar 1y ago
  The sad thing is that buying the mask probably does materially improve their lives. But the factories are just as happy churning out high quality items are they are cheap plastic shit, but the demand for the latter is much, much higher.