Comment by mulmen
8 days ago
The unaccounted externality is the wasted energy to create a thing and destroy it without ever using it.
This may be profit maximizing because it maintains the exclusivity of the brand.
8 days ago
The unaccounted externality is the wasted energy to create a thing and destroy it without ever using it.
This may be profit maximizing because it maintains the exclusivity of the brand.
And you presume to know better than they do what to do with that energy? Do you think you have a general right to override people's resource allocation decisions when you believe they're being wasteful?
1. In this case, not using the energy at all would have been better. 2. The legislature of a sovereign polity would have, and be able to delegate, that right. If and when the legislature should make use of that right is a political question.
> Do you think you have a general right to override people's resource allocation decisions when you believe they're being wasteful?
Me personally? No, of course not. But I do think our government has the responsibility to govern.