I remember payday lending being a thing, rent to own on furniture rings a bell too, but I remember most of the focus being on credit cards and bank fees
Partially agree, people are weirdly reluctant to ask for things to be fixed. I mean who among us has not just decided to skip out on telling the random employee that the bathroom is about out of soap? But how would they know?
The answer of course is that businesses which generate tons of onsite waste and provide trash bins have people whose job it is to keep an eye on cleanliness which includes soap, trash, etc. on a regular basis. Much the same way when you go to a grocery store you're never out of carts. The difference is people use carts to buy, while garbage is different, so companies optimize for what makes them money at the cost of public good.
Just ask for that, they will oblige. Source: plenty of places I do this. While normally I find this bullshit cloying, in this case you have the power to be the change you want to see.
Have you ever lived in an urban area? If so, did you stay within the approx 1 mile radius that is a comfortable walk for most people, a significant % of the time? No stores you liked that were a neighborhood over but not in your town? No friends across the bridge? My experience has been that I can get about 25% of what I want done within walking distance, for everything else I need transit or a vehicle, and I live in a relatively walkable mixed use urban area.
Your point is valid (as I read it "if you have less trash there will be less trash") but the path you used to get there is illogical (as I read it "if I have less trash, but people empty the trash at the same rate, this would not be a problem").
OPs complaint is not that trash produced exceeds our capacity to remove it, it's that people are not removing it. This remains true regardless of quantity.
Even if Russia "wins" they are going to occupy a country that will fuck with them for a half century. They'll have to genocide like Israel to actually win.
What a very bizarre take. "The circumstances of my birth dictate that I should die lest I be labeled a coward by an anonymous internet user calling himself 'phoneymouse'"
Sorry to all the downvoters for actually responding to this clown, part of me really wanted him downvoted into oblivion without explanation, but I think that's how you make incels more incely so I figured the morally right thing to do is explain.
I didn't realize coal plants were concerned about data centers or AI. TIL.
But in the interest of being slightly less of a dick and responding to what you said even though it's kinda a non sequitur, companies are only vaguely interested in efficiency. I think it's more accurate to say that AI is hot for everyone right now so there's more eyes on it which makes the concept you laid out valid. Where it's invalid in my experience is that efficiency is just based on "where x executive is paying attention" not an honest attempt to look at return on investment in a rigorous way across the enterprise.
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But I've not heard it called that until recently.