MenKlash

How can people achieve zero waste when they don't get to choose how anything is packaged?

Waste is an unwanted by-product of production, that is, it's composed of materials that they has purchased but hasn't been able to transform them into the desired final good. This means it's an expense.

The end of every entrepreneur is to reduce expenses and increase income to have a greater profit. But if they have to face multiple costs in the form of regulations and taxes, reducing pollution will no longer be a priority to them.

In a free-market society, when they don't have to face these bureaucratic expenses and "common goods" don't exist, producers will strive to reduce the amount of product paid for but not used, that is, pollution; AND they will have to respect the property rights of the others who would have the "ex-common goods".

Why? Because all issues concerning the environment involve conflicts over ownership. So long as there is private ownership, owners themselves solve these conflicts by forbidding and punishing trespass (Coase theorem).

The goal of economical management will always be elusive if "common ownership" exists.

Examples like the Free Republic of Liberland were victims of the still existing institutional coercion.

Agorism is the way to abolish the apparatus of compulsion and coercion, and it's a long-haul goal.

If my taxes raise, that’s ok because I can choose to ditch my car

What about the ones who didn't want their taxes to be raised? Taxation is involuntary servitude, and no end can justify robbery.

Conscription should be abolished.

We need thousands of companies to be forced to do zero waste perfectly.

Forced by who? By an oligarchy of politicians that are being influenced by those companies, and viceversa?

You dont understand economics at all if you dont understand how all free markets naturally devolve into monopolies.

I'm a "follower" of the Austrian School of Economics, although the idea that monopolies are government-grant privileges was first originated by the economists of the classical school (and they were right).

Predatory pricing cannot be sustained over the long haul, and not even this should be regretted since it benefits the consumers. Attempted cartel-type behavior typically collapses, and where it does not, it serves a market function.

The definition of a monopoly by the idea of "monopoly price" has no effective meaning in free-market setting, which are not snapshots in time but processes of change.

demand is manufactured by misleading and manipulative advertising and marketing.
It’s driven by planned obselesence.

Consumer products develop through experimentation. Consumer preferences also change and develop gradually through time. To meet them requires entrepreneurial judgment.

Nor is buying essential items like food and utilities voluntary.

Aside from a few innate demands concerning hunger and temperature, consumer preferences emerge as a result of interaction between many individuals.

Each consumer regulates the consumer products he consumes by spending money. There is no good substitute for the market process concerning the development and dissemination of consumer goods.

You cant have a free market without a government enforcing anti monopoly laws.

A free market is not free at all if the government is stepping in any voluntary exchange.

The existence of "anti-monopoly" laws has caused more harm than good by protecting particular competitors, not competition. In fact, monopolies can only survive through government-grant privileges, for gaining legal rights to be a preferred producer is the only way to maintain a monopoly in a free-market setting.

"A market society needs no antitrust policy at all; indeed, the state is the very source of the remaining monopolies we see in education, law, courts, and other areas."

The problem is that they fall in a false dilemma.

Evaluating the world and the people around you with labels so generic as "left wing" or "right wing" is not useful at all. Another problem is being too politicized, as I think it can damage your relationships with others.

I don't know too much about the MAGA movement, as I'm not american, but thanks for sharing your views.