It’s a lot of plastic. A lot of waste.
It's only waste if it's being discarded. If someone wants to keep it and cherish it, even if they're not playing it, then it's not waste.
It's only waste if it's being discarded. If someone wants to keep it and cherish it, even if they're not playing it, then it's not waste.
Perhaps their children will cherish it for generations, or perhaps their children will have different musical tastes from their great great great grandpa and the plastic ends up in a landfill, forever un-played.
And yet again customer demand and financial gain supercede environmental concerns. There’s no hope for a better, less consumer-oriented culture if even the indie creatives among us acknowledge the problem yet succumb to it.
It simply requires putting a stop to the constant brainwashing campaigns for inducing demand.
>> do things they naturally want to
collecting Stanley tumblers is not a "natural" tendency.
If we don't induce demand by brainwashing, what will people do? They will keep inflating bubbles buying up stocks (making economy even more unstable, and eventually undermining themselves), houses (making sure new generations can't buy theirs, depressing birth rates and giving rise to political radicalism), and crypto (which is absolute insanity). People need to be given ways to spend their spare cash, and nudged to do it as opposed to "investing" that cash (which is, in the true meanin of this word, mostly impossible because there aren't enough inventions to invest into).
Unfortunately, there are C-suite level roles for this so it will never stop.
There are many things people naturally want to do that we regulate and steer away from via many different means (smoking bans, traffic laws, etc.).
You do realize we don't live in an objectivist society, right?