> That will translate into even more expensive products for consumers.
You know what's even more expensive for consumers in the long run? But of course you don't think in the long run. Or anybody else than yourself. Or anything at all, really. I'm sorry that people like you exist. So blinded by cheap bling.
One generation of wealthy Western people filling their homes with crap because it's "cheap" and "easy", blissfully unaware or unwilling to think about the very real external costs borne by other people somewhere else. Or somewhen else for that matter – so incredibly selfish that you're entirely willing to make the world worse for your children and their children, just in order to enjoy limitless consumerism for a few decades. Feeling good about that?
Harsh but ultimately true. Cheap consumer goods are subsidised with a loan from the environment - one day we'll need to start paying that off, so we better start reducing the deficit.
Those were rhetorical questions and it would be good for you to reflect upon them for a bit. Look up "negative externality" while you're at it, as this incredibly basic concept in economy seems to be entirely unfamiliar to you (as it is to many others, including those who like to play economists on the internet). Many things are "cheap for the consumer" while incredibly costly to the society and the ecosystem as a whole, and our entire society has been structured to shield the "consumer" (and most of the "producers") from having to think of the consequences of their actions.
The entire Western lifestyle is based on living on borrowed money. And we keep borrowing more and more, and the interest is compounding, and still people think it's somehow a sustainable way to live.
You're confusing bitterness with anger. I've been to therapy, and I've learned a few things. Including the fact that any competent therapist would say that it is okay to feel anger. That anger is an entirely justified emotion to feel about the sorry state of affairs that humanity has gotten itself and the planet into. That anger is an entirely justified emotion to feel on behalf of those who were given no choice on what kind of world to inherit.
But to be merely angry at the incredibly egoistic, self-obsessed people who revel in making things worse? No, that doesn't seem to fit. Try "disgusted" instead.
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To paraphrase [1], "Yes, the planet got destroyed. But for a beautiful moment in time we created a lot of SUVs and 70" tellies for Western consumers."
Cheaper to whom? Better to whom?
> That will translate into even more expensive products for consumers.
You know what's even more expensive for consumers in the long run? But of course you don't think in the long run. Or anybody else than yourself. Or anything at all, really. I'm sorry that people like you exist. So blinded by cheap bling.
One generation of wealthy Western people filling their homes with crap because it's "cheap" and "easy", blissfully unaware or unwilling to think about the very real external costs borne by other people somewhere else. Or somewhen else for that matter – so incredibly selfish that you're entirely willing to make the world worse for your children and their children, just in order to enjoy limitless consumerism for a few decades. Feeling good about that?