Recycling doesn't fail at collection. It often fails at demand. NJ's embrace of dissolution recycling shows how smart policy creates markets that make circularity work. More states should take note.
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@RBReich There's lots of blame to go around (congress, presidents, eg) on the increasing wealth inequality but the biggest contributor is the Federal Reserve.
The most insidious form of evil creates the very problems it claims to solve.
It promotes the conditions that breed illness, addiction, division, and dependency, then builds an entire industry around managing the consequences.
Today, we often call these NGOs.
The Caretaker's Incentive: when status, funding, and moral prestige become tied to the existence of a problem, the incentive shifts from solving it to perpetually managing it.
When American POWs tried to sneak her notes with their personal information to tell their families they were still alive, she gave them to the North Vietnamese. Some of them were beaten to death. You are both commies and you can both fuck off.