Well, but is there any value there? If you can’t even give your old comics away, trashing them is not a “waste”. Your 10-year-old modem might still be functioning, but if no one wants it, it has no value.
Yeah, I think people today have a major anti-trashing bias. Manufacturing and distribution have gotten so good and cheap that we should all be anti-hoarders trashing lots of stuff, then ordering new stuff as needed.
Maybe I’m ill adjusted to the modern world, or maybe I’m one of the few who sees Moloch’s footprints here, but the fact that a tree is cut, processed, printed on, read for ten minutes and thrown away where it will rot and emit chemical substances into the soil annoys me in a big way.
it’s consumption. Does it annoy you that a lot of money, time, and effort is spent on a big fancy dinner and then it just turns into poop? Which also emits chemical substances including the notorious dihydrogen monoxide...
Does it annoy you that a lot of money, time, and effort is spent on a big fancy dinner and then it just turns into poop?
In that case, there’s less waste because your body extract whatever calories it can with an added bonus of pleasure. But yes!, it annoys me that calories are seen as a major social lubricant, as much as it does annoy me all the Mton of food wasted by grocery stores each day all around the world!
May I suggest it would be beneficial to yourself to change that attitude? The world is certainly not going to change and spending your life annoyed at the reality seems… wasteful.
You’re right, clearly there’s no economical value. But that depends on the lack of demand, and markets can be inefficient in many ways. It’s not a clear, specific idea, but I’m ‘sensing’ a big inefficiency here.
There is no need put “economic” in here. Defining “value” as “wanted”, there is no value, full stop. “Lack of demand” in simpler terms means “nobody wants it” and in a such situation markets are irrelevant, efficient or not.
Well, the only means I have of advertising my “leftovers” are say a local market and ebay. These are the markets that are accessible to me, but if there’s someone who would want them but is in Japan and we could not communicate, then there’s a want that cannot turn into demand (and so in value) because there’s no market that connect us. So I do not equate want and value, because in that case the Japanese collector and I do not have a mean to translate our demand/supply into an exchange.
Well, but is there any value there? If you can’t even give your old comics away, trashing them is not a “waste”. Your 10-year-old modem might still be functioning, but if no one wants it, it has no value.
Yeah, I think people today have a major anti-trashing bias. Manufacturing and distribution have gotten so good and cheap that we should all be anti-hoarders trashing lots of stuff, then ordering new stuff as needed.
Maybe I’m ill adjusted to the modern world, or maybe I’m one of the few who sees Moloch’s footprints here, but the fact that a tree is cut, processed, printed on, read for ten minutes and thrown away where it will rot and emit chemical substances into the soil annoys me in a big way.
it’s consumption. Does it annoy you that a lot of money, time, and effort is spent on a big fancy dinner and then it just turns into poop? Which also emits chemical substances including the notorious dihydrogen monoxide...
That doesn’t make it right or even tolerable.
In that case, there’s less waste because your body extract whatever calories it can with an added bonus of pleasure.
But yes!, it annoys me that calories are seen as a major social lubricant, as much as it does annoy me all the Mton of food wasted by grocery stores each day all around the world!
Better that there be too much food than too little!
Sure, but at the moment there isn’t too much food, there is too much food here.
It sounds like you are annoyed with the world.
May I suggest it would be beneficial to yourself to change that attitude? The world is certainly not going to change and spending your life annoyed at the reality seems… wasteful.
We’ll see about that...
You might need to take some fiber supplements...
And that will reduce the dihydrogen monoxide emissions..? I think you’re confused about what fiber does :-P
You’re right, clearly there’s no economical value. But that depends on the lack of demand, and markets can be inefficient in many ways.
It’s not a clear, specific idea, but I’m ‘sensing’ a big inefficiency here.
There is no need put “economic” in here. Defining “value” as “wanted”, there is no value, full stop. “Lack of demand” in simpler terms means “nobody wants it” and in a such situation markets are irrelevant, efficient or not.
Well, the only means I have of advertising my “leftovers” are say a local market and ebay. These are the markets that are accessible to me, but if there’s someone who would want them but is in Japan and we could not communicate, then there’s a want that cannot turn into demand (and so in value) because there’s no market that connect us.
So I do not equate want and value, because in that case the Japanese collector and I do not have a mean to translate our demand/supply into an exchange.
Ebay actually is such a market. I don’t see why your Japanese collector could not access it.