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Circular economy (hexbear.net)

Been thinking about the weird embracement of all the circular economy solutions by the capitalist class.

This framing has enabled them to sell the same commodity many times over and then recycle it into even more commodities while maintaining an image of "being Green". Due to this the second hand market for things has become a lot less accessible and expensive. Also donations and giving out stuff you no longer need seems to be disappearing as a practise. This might also be because nothing we buy lasts more than a year anymore.

This post is inspired by me trying to find a few rocks or pavement stones for our backyard that a few decades ago you could just go source from the dumb or some construction site. Now those places are reselling the trash and have barbed wired fences around them.

Also feels like these systems have removed the slack aka maximized and optimized profit on food items, making the food given out to the poor and homeless disappear or become way too scarce.

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[-] FunkyStuff@hexbear.net 13 points 7 months ago

The commons do be getting encircled.

[-] asg101@hexbear.net 5 points 7 months ago

The oligarchs are starving us out, maybe when people have nothing left to lose they will start to fight back?

[-] DayOfDoom@hexbear.net 3 points 7 months ago

Also wouldn't be surprised if people are too tired, scared, etc. to bother giving stuff away when it involves someone knowing where you live or you having to spend more time than it takes to just chuck something into the garbage.

this post was submitted on 02 Feb 2024
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