An interesting thread about "ugly food" (the theory that supermarkets largely don't stock cosmetically impaired perfectly good food, which is mostly true for some supermarkets, and therefore that this food gets wasted, which is not). https://twitter.com/SarahTaber_bww/status/1086055092321697794 …
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(This is one of the many, many views on capitalism which views it as a superposition of people who evilly and rapaciously optimize everything which sparks joy out of life while simultaneously being nincompoops.)
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Another superposition: capitalists simultaneously hate paying people (including smart people) wages, employ everyone working for companies, but are utterly incapable of extracting productive labor out of smart people. They just are eaten by the system never to be heard from again
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And while I'm perfectly capable of acknowledging market failures and broken organizations generally speaking when you put multiple billions of dollars of prize money up for anyone capable of working spreadsheets capitalism will spreadsheet the heck out of that problem.
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this is a bit odd - there are a lot of industries which produce huge waste streams, precisely because of the spreadsheet of cost/benefit. Mining comes to mind first..
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