Crisis of Capitalism
*** I wrote this back in 2019 for the blog I write for my job, but never published it because I was worried it was too political. Now I feel like everything going on with COVID is exactly the "excruciating event" that might launch us all into action about these broken systems that hold all the power One of the biggest challenges to being sustainable is not having reusable/refillable options for everyday products. TerraCycle teamed up with UPS and several top brands to create a completely closed-loop container system called Loop. I started to feel excitement about it and then I realized something... why is this MY responsibility? I am not a billionaire, millionaire, nor do I have any power. Why is this gigantic mess something I am supposed to pay to fix? Does this even fix it? No. It's creating a new system of revenue out of trash, which is the only way capitalism will ever handle pollution. I don't trust most solutions that require a new product. Granted, ...