{"id":87042,"date":"2024-02-26T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-02-26T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=87042"},"modified":"2024-02-26T06:51:04","modified_gmt":"2024-02-26T12:51:04","slug":"the-thing-about-any-good-or-service-is-that","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=87042","title":{"rendered":"The Thing About Any Good Or Service, Is That&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>&#8230;if it&#8217;s one that anyone wants, people pay you to do it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For example, the one type of recycling that&#8217;s economically viable is recycling metal.   There&#8217;s a demand &#8211; it&#8217;s easier and cheaper to melt and re-use metal, especially aluminum, than to mine and refine it from raw ore.  So companies pay for metal.   <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They <em>don&#8217;t <\/em>pay for other things. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here&#8217;s an experiment for you: put a bag of old newspapers and a bag of aluminum cans out in the alley.  See which pile disappears within a day, and which one slowly decomposes. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Penn and Teller explained it in an epic episode of &#8220;Penn and Teller: Bullshit&#8221;, 20 years ago:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Debunking recycling paper (P&amp;T segment)\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7czKngCUASM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>When it&#8217;s not viable?   The government taxes you to prevent you from needing to do it, since nobody but third-world landfills wants the good or service. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/countylocalnews.com\/2024\/02\/25\/aussies-hit-with-world-first-recycling-tax-as-exporters-warn-of-cost-pass-on\/\">Sort of like this<\/a>.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Which, mark my words, is coming to Minnesota if there&#8217;s another session or two of DFL control. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;if it&#8217;s one that anyone wants, people pay you to do it. For example, the one type of recycling that&#8217;s economically viable is recycling metal. There&#8217;s a demand &#8211; it&#8217;s easier and cheaper to melt and re-use metal, especially aluminum, than to mine and refine it from raw ore. So companies pay for metal. They [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economy-and-the-market"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87042","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=87042"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87042\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87043,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87042\/revisions\/87043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=87042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=87042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=87042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}