A lot of people could make a reasonable case for the Moon program being a "waste," but I digress.
People have actually told me that having more than one brand of a product in the stores is a "waste." Think of how many resources could be saved.
Efficiency shouldn't necessarily be a top priority in a society. Everyone is different, with different goals, different priorities, different ideas. Our society may use more resources than more "organized" or less-advanced societies elsewhere in the world, but I know which direction the immigration always goes.
What the moviemakers see as a bug, I see as a feature. Thirty years ago, it used to be about real pollution and poisons that needed to be cleaned up. I got behind that. When the existence of human achievement and industrial civilization itself began to be considered a poison, they lost me.
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"Waste" is subjective.
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