The Worst Product Ever
Channel: vlogbrothers
Date: 2019-05-10

Waste is super not simple...so we have ways of simplifying it in our heads. The Flexplay DVD gives us insight into exactly how that works. We decide whether it's OK to throw something away by thinking about how valuable it is. A plastic bottle is just a container that holds something, but a DVD is the thing I purchased! Or...is it?

I talk more about why a bottle of coke and a DVD are roughly equivalent over on hankschannel: https://youtu.be/g64lojMyZXY

Thanks to Technology Connections for sending me the disc! 

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