A sustainable economy is one that reuses a significant amount of material it throws away. In the 1980’s there was a mass cultural shift to recycling. In the 2020’s it is possible we can…
Another view is that capitalism has produced an externality of sorts (broken items with little hope of repair), and it’s time for government to catch up and start regulating that externality the same way it deals with something like emissions. If the price of throwing things away was more accurately priced into items, there would be more economic pressure to be repairable.
Another view is that capitalism has produced an externality of sorts (broken items with little hope of repair), and it’s time for government to catch up and start regulating that externality the same way it deals with something like emissions. If the price of throwing things away was more accurately priced into items, there would be more economic pressure to be repairable.