| ▲ | Waterluvian 5 hours ago | |||||||
Trash piles is one way the actual cost of things is obfuscated and punted to future generations. A lot of people wouldn’t want this because it’s asking for stuff to become more expensive for them. | ||||||||
| ▲ | Earw0rm 3 hours ago | parent [-] | |||||||
If people had to pay the true cost of their decisions up-front, we'd make a lot of different decisions. That said, I got quite into this stuff a few years back, and determining "true" cost can be harder than it sounds. Externalities, positive or negative, have to be measured against a baseline, and deciding on where that sits is subject to opinion and bias. | ||||||||
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