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Re:Coca-Cola most common source of packaging pollution on UK... by rienbdj on Friday May 17, 2019 @02:13AM (#19936748)
It doesn't matter whos fault it is. The only point in the system where we can reasonably fix it is at these companies.
Re:Coca-Cola most common source of packaging pollution on UK... by rexpop on Friday May 17, 2019 @02:41AM (#19936875)
Right. There isn't an ethical way to "upgrade" human operating system.

It's infuriating to me how so many Hacker Newsites refuse to hold corporations accountable for their design flaws.

Re:Coca-Cola most common source of packaging pollution on UK... by TeMPOraL on Friday May 17, 2019 @05:42AM (#19937890)
> It's infuriating to me how so many Hacker Newsites refuse to hold corporations accountable for their design flaws.

I have a silent hope that each thread like this means some commenters who haven't thought about this much before will achieve the crucial insights, like: (per GP) assigning blame isn't productive, effective solutions are; (per you) there's no easy way to just make people "be better", at scale people are predictable and follow incentives, so the main points of intervention should be these incentives and systems that create them.

Re:Coca-Cola most common source of packaging pollution on UK... by rexpop on Saturday May 18, 2019 @04:06PM (#19949463)
> there's no easy way to just make people "be better"

I found this sentiment echoed in an RSA video, just this morning: https://youtu.be/o5CTxckRywg

So, in the future, you can attribute it to Dan Lyons, author of "Lab Rats: How Silicon Valley Made Work Miserable for the Rest of Us".