And herein lies the rub: It's been like this in many countries for the longest time. In Thailand, say, you receive an order from abroad, the post office sends you a slip and you have to pay the assessed duties to receive the package. It often ends up feeing arbitrary; some stuff comes through, others get assessed at a higher value and you have to show receipts and convince them that no, this isn't that expensive of a…
>America had no idea how good they had it, in the before times. The downside is the insane consumption associated with that. Americans are responsible for an insane amount of pollution, far more per capita than any other people in the history of the world, much of which is tied to how easy/cheap it is to order shit we don't need. So, good if ya wanna buy cheap pollution, pretty bad if ya care about the next generatio…
So does Canada.
> far more per capita than any other people in the history of the world
Not even remotely close to true. Aside from that it's down 20% from it's peak 40 (!) years ago.
> much of which is tied to how easy/cheap it is to order shit we don't need.
The data does not support this conclusion.
> pretty bad if ya care about the next generation.
Speaking of trends.. care to guess which country has doubled it's pollution in the last 10 years?