I agree with this one. The problem is the issue of being left destitute by long term care costs is that it is unnecessarily chaotic. But it’s a big lift, it’ll need middle class taxes as well, which the electorate hates.
It’s a nice hope, but I have my doubts. Why now? Europe did not grow more race hatred in the last three generations, I don’t think. What it has grown is three generations since the war.
No, I just like reading about it.
Putting aside deservingness…as vast as the wealthy’s control of output is (that is, the returns they get on investments), it’s just not enough to fund big social programs.
Well I don’t see much long term food storage in PLA… maybe not stable enough?
I think there’s satisfying about making something with your scraps. Kind of like “hell yeah time to make some dirt.” Also satisfying to throw an entire greasy pizza box in there (one of the examples on the bin) and have the internal six year old say “haha bacteria go brrrrr”
Hah yeah, I just didn’t think about San Francisco’s institutional endowment here. Best I know, really one of the quiet successes of government policymaking, even though you can see how it might raise hackles, being an all-of-society participation. Somehow, it worked out.
The volumes are actually huge. Big fan of this program. At the time I think it was written off as an overzealous granola project, but it’s such a significant fraction of the waste stream that… unlike recycling plastics… actually works? www.businessinsider.com/how-san-fran...
San Francisco pioneered the nation's first citywide composting program. Now the city composts and recycles more trash than it sends to the landfill.