• UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    Planned Obsolescence, baby!

    That said, we might be able to make industrial scale recycling an economically efficient activity if we build more durable goods with a longer lifecycle and limit the availability of new territory to strip mine and abandon.

    So much of our “cheap” access to minerals and fossil fuels boils down to valuing unimproved real estate as at zero dollars and ignoring the enormous waste produced during the extraction process. Properly accounting for the destruction of undeveloped real estate and the emissions/waste created during industrial processing could dramatically improve how much waste we produce and - consequently - how long our durable goods last.

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      6 months ago

      or just end capitalism so that the only goal is to make a good product that satisfies the users needs completely

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          6 months ago

          no it doesn’t, it could be done mostly peacefully - i’m guessing that the state and wealthy elite would use violence on us after it became clear that our nonviolent methods were working, but the number of people who would “have to” die is very low, and it’s all the worst people