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The cost would need to be much cheaper than the PSA then. At a buck per picked up cigarette butt, you could pay a person to do this much faster and more reliabl
by yoz-y 11d ago
The cost would need to be much cheaper than the PSA then. At a buck per picked up cigarette butt, you could pay a person to do this much faster and more reliably. Heck… I’d do it at that rate.
- qup 11d agoA buck per? You could just buy cartons of cigarettes and chop off the butts, at that rate.
- arcanemachiner 11d ago"Show me the incentive, and I will show you the outcome."
- andwur 11d agoAnd for the illogical conclusion: buy factory equipment to make just the butts to minimise your running costs and limit supply chain dependency. I joke, but this is surely what would eventuate.
- ElFitz 11d agoThere was a line in Discworld about some people in Ankh Morpork taking to breeding rats to collect the rat catching fee.
- plastic3169 11d ago> There was a line in Discworld about some people in Ankh Morpork taking to breeding rats to collect the rat catching fee. That is maybe based on Hanoi rat massacre. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Hanoi_Rat_Massacre https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Hanoi_Rat_Massacre
- ElFitz 10d agoAnd there I was, honestly thinking Terry Pratchett had come up with it all on his own. Thanks!