<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@whitequark" class="u-url mention">@<span>whitequark</span></a></span> 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</p><p>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 &quot;i want 5 rubber bands&quot; &quot;okay, i&#39;ll open the box and uh… five cents??!&quot;</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@whitequark" class="u-url mention">@<span>whitequark</span></a></span> &quot;...so what&#39;s C, then?&quot;</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@mcc" class="u-url mention">@<span>mcc</span></a></span> is... that even true</p><p>rubber bands are wasteful to distribute in qty 1; the economic system does not change it</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://qoto.org/@robryk" class="u-url mention">@<span>robryk</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://universeodon.com/@ckfinite" class="u-url mention">@<span>ckfinite</span></a></span> it was the drinking water treatment plant</p>

<p>dp/dr, also known as p&#39;(r)</p>

<p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@whitequark" class="u-url mention">@<span>whitequark</span></a></span> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://universeodon.com/@ckfinite" class="u-url mention">@<span>ckfinite</span></a></span> </p><p>Ah, you mean the wastewater plant?</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://qoto.org/@robryk" class="u-url mention">@<span>robryk</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://universeodon.com/@ckfinite" class="u-url mention">@<span>ckfinite</span></a></span> INFRA</p>

<p>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</p>

<p>I need a rubber band and I don&#39;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</p>