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cstanhope@social.coop ("Charles Stanhope") wrote:

I just realized the story of how industries invented jaywalking...

https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/episode-76-the-modern-moloch/

rhymes with the story of how industries invented the fiction of recyclable plastic:

https://www.npr.org/2020/09/11/897692090/how-big-oil-misled-the-public-into-believing-plastic-would-be-recycled

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/09/recycling-symbol-cant-appear-on-non-recyclable-items-california-bill-says/

And we keep falling for these things.