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A Boring Dystopia

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[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 6 points 2 months ago

Customers will indeed eat the cost. The idea is that a competitor uses something else and makes a cheaper product. Unfortunately the taxes are never really enough, so you just end up with the same plastic use and a token amount going to a third world farmer to scatter some tree seeds in a field.