"All that waste going into a landfill someplace just because some bureaucrats thought that lead should be banned in computers because of some fantasy-land ideas of babies licking the solder inside computers"
Nothing to do with rampant consumerism, insatiable demand for cheap acquisition and even cheaper disposal, then? It's been a long, long time since people wanting shiny-shiny paid the true costs of it. Go externalities!
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"All that waste going into a landfill someplace just because some bureaucrats thought that lead should be banned in computers because of some fantasy-land ideas of babies licking the solder inside computers"
Nothing to do with rampant consumerism, insatiable demand for cheap acquisition and even cheaper disposal, then? It's been a long, long time since people wanting shiny-shiny paid the true costs of it. Go externalities!