{"id":283,"date":"2005-03-19T22:43:03","date_gmt":"2005-03-20T02:43:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nikolasschiller.com\/blog\/index.php\/archives\/2005\/03\/19\/283\/"},"modified":"2005-03-19T22:43:03","modified_gmt":"2005-03-20T02:43:03","slug":"the-receipt-deceit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nikolasschiller.com\/blog\/index.php\/archives\/2005\/03\/19\/283\/","title":{"rendered":"the Receipt Deceit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last night I had an epiphany concerning sustainability &#038; commerce.  I stumbled upon a cache of receipts that I hadn&#8217;t placed in my recycle bin and realized that for every transaction we conduct in our lives in which a receipt is generated, somewhere, an unknown time ago, a tree was cut down to supply the paper for the transaction.  Meaning that every time we buy, something had to die.  <\/p>\n<p>If our economic system is built upon a standard in which commerce must always be increasing, there will most likely be a point in which there are no more trees.  Maybe in some Brave New World there will be a cashless &#038; paperless society that wouldn&#8217;t be the problem.<br \/>\nOh <em>wait<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Now if I were to make something, and you were to make something or even have a service, and we exchanged our values &#038; services then nothing had to die. &#8211;But that just sounds too perfect&#8230; How could that be applied to a large scale in such a specialized society?  I&#8217;m open for answers&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last night I had an epiphany concerning sustainability &#038; commerce. I stumbled upon a cache of receipts that I hadn&#8217;t placed in my recycle bin and realized that for every transaction we conduct in our lives in which a receipt is generated, somewhere, an unknown time ago, a tree was cut down to supply the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"aioseo_notices":[],"views":33,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nikolasschiller.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nikolasschiller.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nikolasschiller.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nikolasschiller.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nikolasschiller.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=283"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nikolasschiller.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nikolasschiller.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nikolasschiller.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nikolasschiller.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}