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69 sats \ 9 replies \ @SimpleStacker 9h \ parent \ on: Maintenance is not a Romantic Subject (FT, Tim Harford) HealthAndFitness

I guess it'll take the cost of replacing a gadget to exceed the cost of repairing it. Which likely means we are in some kind of environmental doomsday scenario?

Or, as in my comment we need some major advancement on reusability tech

85 sats \ 8 replies \ @Undisciplined 9h

Or, we're just in a temporary period of relatively cheap material inputs. If that flips, landfills may become future mines.

69 sats \ 7 replies \ @SimpleStacker 9h

Sounds like a good setup for a scifi

0 sats \ 6 replies \ @Undisciplined 9h

It's mostly that plastics are cheap, right?

Easy enough to imagine energy demand rising to the point where plastics are no longer an economical use of petroleum, at least for all the things it's used for now.

150 sats \ 5 replies \ @optimism 9h

I think y'all would love Steward Brand's book in progress.

Have a chapter

There's more but I'm on mobile.

100 sats \ 3 replies \ @denlillaapan OP 8h

that's literally what the Harford article is about :)

33 sats \ 2 replies \ @optimism 8h

Awesome. Will hunt for archive later when im at my desk.

I've read every chapter of Brands drafts thus far and I actually find it rather romantic.

Also his book in making inspired me to help a dude set up a repair business in 2024. 3D printers are the bomb.

100 sats \ 1 reply \ @denlillaapan OP 8h

amazing! Best of luck, let us know how it goes

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @optimism 5h

It goes well. Didn't have to lend the man sats for over a year.

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100 sats \ 0 replies \ @Undisciplined 8h

Super interesting and no surprise we decided to just stop using paper instead of dealing with all that.