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7 days agoI’m no expert on this topic, but I’ve previously read that when a thing is made free people stop valuing it.
This sounds like a misunderstanding of economics. If someone gives away something for free, they’re only saying the thing has no value to them, etc, or — in the context of gov services — the act of giving it away has more value. It’s never that the thing itself has no intrinsic value, “period”.
You could definitely argue that the 50c fee prevents homeless people from squatting, or completely unnecessary travel, but I would argue that everyone should be provided with shelter, and 50c probably isn’t going to prevent unnecessary travel anyway.
I will never forgive the government for not requiring biodegradable packaging, and taxing every corporation for every disposable piece of plastic.
They target everything that inconveniences consumers (straws, plastic bags, etc), while patting themselves on the back, twiddling their thumbs, and virtue signalling to constituents… while 99% of plastic waste is from grocery packaging, shipping packaging, etc… They target the people while letting corporations profit from 1000x the damage.