Ask HN: Can we have a conversation on startup swag waste?

Re:Ask HN: Can we have a conversation on startup swag waste? by legalcorrection on Thursday March 17, 2022 @05:59PM (#30716321)

You can criticize anything you want under the guise of some environmentalist angle. Can everyone stop doing Y because Y is bad for the environment? Where Y can be traveling, drinking the wrong kind of water, having a big house, driving a car, flushing the toilet too often, taking long showers, printing reports, turning on the lights, not living in a tent on the street, getting a new phone every two years.

This is so tiresome. No, everyone else isn't going to change their behavior to align with your personal environmentalist crusade. Leave us alone.

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Re:Ask HN: Can we have a conversation on startup swag waste? by II2II on Thursday March 17, 2022 @06:29PM (#30716597)

I think their point was that very few people want this stuff, which may or may not be true.

Based upon the comments so far, it sounds like a lot of this stuff is unwanted since it is either low quality or they get so much of it that it is redundant. It sounds like a lot of people would welcome it if it was higher quality or not redundant.

I would hardly call it an environmental crusade if it stops behaviours that are out of habit and that people do not find beneficial, unlike your examples (most of which people do because it has value in their life).

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Re:Ask HN: Can we have a conversation on startup swag waste? by quickthrower2 on Thursday March 17, 2022 @08:47PM (#30717478)

They might change their behaviour. Or at least I might disuade any company I work for from making swag. That said my company’s swag has been pretty decent - replacing clothing I would have purchased anyway. So it can be good.

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