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by anigbrowl
4068 days ago
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Even the inventor of the Keurig machines is horrified by the waste involved, and admits he didn't think this through at the time he invented it. http://www.eastbayexpress.com/oakland/waste-the-dark-side-of... And actually, I do think that people who consume heavily packaged foods all the time are being needlessly wasteful and should feel bad about it. Do you not see the fallacy in your argument, of replying to a complaint about people who generate this sort of waste on a regular basis with questions about whether the other poster ever does anything wasteful? Of course s/he does, we all do. But there's a huge difference between occasional and systematic inefficiency. |
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"People didn't think too much about that back then," he said, pausing a bit before he went on, "I feel kind of guilty. The world's changed in fifteen years." He told me he's proud he created something that's so well loved, but "hindsight's 20/20," he said. "I wouldn't do it now."
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He also says right before that that he didn't think about the waste issue at all, but I'm pretty doubtful. Engineers are taught to design for consumable/disposable parts and planned obsolescence, or at least to take them into consideration and compare them to material cost. These sorts of things can be a determining factor of whether a product can even come into existence or not. If he didn't know what he was doing, somebody working with him certainly did and pushed for it.