Re:When Accessibility Gets Labeled Wasteful
by AnthonyMouse on Thursday March 10, 2016 @03:36PM
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> Are you really arguing that I should not be able to buy a bagged salad because I can chop my own damn veggies?
Not "shouldn't be able to," just "shouldn't."
The underlying problem is that we're not pricing externalities correctly. If the environmental and energy impact of plastic containers was required to be paid up front then the price would increase significantly and companies would stop using them in many cases. But until that happens, if you want to be environmentally conscious, you avoid such products where practical. And if you're an environmentally conscious company, you avoid selling them.
> You do realize most of the people reading this work in an industry that spends billions on giant space heaters to provide snapchat and online poker and bitcoin and HFT and...
...and people are spending billions of dollars to make those space heaters as energy efficient as possible going forward. And some of those practices (like HFT) are criticized for being incredibly wasteful and people have suggested curbing them.
And hypocrisy is not, in any event, a logical fallacy. Two wrongs don't make a right.
Not "shouldn't be able to," just "shouldn't."
The underlying problem is that we're not pricing externalities correctly. If the environmental and energy impact of plastic containers was required to be paid up front then the price would increase significantly and companies would stop using them in many cases. But until that happens, if you want to be environmentally conscious, you avoid such products where practical. And if you're an environmentally conscious company, you avoid selling them.
> You do realize most of the people reading this work in an industry that spends billions on giant space heaters to provide snapchat and online poker and bitcoin and HFT and...
...and people are spending billions of dollars to make those space heaters as energy efficient as possible going forward. And some of those practices (like HFT) are criticized for being incredibly wasteful and people have suggested curbing them.
And hypocrisy is not, in any event, a logical fallacy. Two wrongs don't make a right.