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That would probably also solve overconsumption, since you could only buy so much of anything before literally running out of dollars to deposit.

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That would make having a mountain of long lived useless trash a solid inflation safe investment plan.

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8 points

Can’t wait to start counterfeiting milk jugs

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As long as their useless trash is in their garage and not scattered on the highway I think that’s still an improvement.

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Even if it was scattered everywhere you would definitely have people pick it back up for the deposit. That works with bottles in Germany and the deposit for them gets as low as 8ct.

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Why would it be inflation safe?

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Because the deposit is tied to inflation. Older products might end up with way outdated deposits if you print the sum on the packaging, so it would have to be token based. The token is then inflation safe.

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