I need a rubber band and I don't know how to get one. I know that there will be rubber bands at the store, but there will not be *one* rubber band. The store will sell me 200 rubber bands but will not sell me one
This is a challenge to the entire system of society. My inability to obtain a single rubber band is a specific and direct result of the model of personal property ownership we have adopted. It shows that model failing
@mcc is... that even true
rubber bands are wasteful to distribute in qty 1; the economic system does not change it
@whitequark Rather than distributing many boxes of 200 rubber bands to the area and expecting everyone to buy a box and let them rot in a drawer they could distribute like 200 rubber bands to the area and you could just sorta grab one when you need it
This would be solved by a communism but would also be solved by localist capitalism; a general store run by one person rather than a corporation would let me go in and be like "i want 5 rubber bands" "okay, i'll open the box and uh… five cents??!"
An electronics parts store in Kraków that I frequented used to do that for stuff like connectors or resistors that would normally be packed in units of ~100.
