• velox_vulnus@lemmy.mlOP
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    5 months ago

    Think of stamp-collecting, but instead, you start collecting algorithmically controlled limited-edition thermos flask. The goal of these bottles were to be reusable, but people have started buying them as status symbols, just like Nike - they’re not going to be used, they’ll “rot” on the shelves. People are not buying them because they care about the environment, but because FOMO.

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      5 months ago

      I mean it doesn’t rot on their shelves, and that’s the whole point of then.

      When the current owner gets rid of them, someone else will use them.