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jonstewartyesterday at 5:48 PM3 repliesview on HN

Laissez faire. They’re making businesses absorb the externalities, as they should.


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TheChaplainyesterday at 7:16 PM

Don't be surprised if products are sent abroad for destr^Wrecycling.

No I am not joking, some german company hid an airtag in a old computer that went to recycling. It ended up somewhere in Thailand, being not very environmentally friendly taken care of.

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arsyesterday at 10:59 PM

> They’re making businesses absorb the externalities, as they should.

That just means the business will raise prices.

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vscode-restyesterday at 5:51 PM

That would be a carbon tax. This is plain overregulation.

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